Computers

Their history, from the Antikythera machine, primitive automata and simulacra through Babbage to today. Effects on society, art, thought. The new idea that Nature is in some sense ``computational'' (which strikes me as either obvious or absurd, depending on how we take the term). Utopian hopes and apocalyptic fears. Programming.

Abelson and Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [Foolishly sold.]
David Gelernter, Mirror Worlds: The Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox and What It Will Mean
Larry Gonick, The Cartoon Guide to the Computer [Formerly titled Cartoon Guide to Computer Science]
Lewis and Papadimitriou, Elements of the Theory of Computation
Peter G. Neumann, Computer-Related Risks
Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial

Jon Agar, The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer [Blurb]
Kurt W. Beyer, Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age [blurb]
Colin Burke and Michael Buckland, Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex
Computing Before Computers
James W. Cortada, The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries
Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
Kenneth Flamm, Creating the Computer: Government, Industry, and High Technology
B. J. Fogg, Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Michael Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox-PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Brenda Laurel, Computers as Theater
Lauren Ruth Wiener, Digital Woes: Why We Should Not Depend on Software [Blurb]
Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine

Notebooks

Computers