Books on Networking History and Trends ¹

Recommended:

• [*****] David Stauffer, " Big Shots, Business the Cisco Way: Secrets of the Company that makes the Internet," Capstone Pub, February 2001, 256 pages.
• [*****] William J. Mitchell, " e-topia," MIT Press, August 2000, 192 pages.
• [*****] Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon, " Where Wizards Stay Up Late : The Origins of the Internet," Touchstone Books, January 1998, 304 pages.
• [*****] Walid Mougayar, " Opening Digital Markets: Battle Plans and Business Strategies for Internet Commerce," McGraw-Hill, December 1997, 336 pages.
• [*****] Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe, " Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing," Copernicus Books, March 1997, 313 pages.
• [*****] William Knoke, Bill Knoke, " Bold New World: The Essential Road Map to the Twenty-First Century," Kodansha International, January 1996.
• [****] Francis Cairncross, Frances C. Cairncross, " The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing our Lives," Harvard Business School Pr, March 2001, 320 pages.
• [****] Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks, Ben J. Wattenberg, " The First Measured Century : An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000," AEI Press, November 2000, 250 pages.
• [****] George Gilder, " TELECOSM: How Infinite Bandwidth will Revolutionize Our World," Unknown, September 2000, 351 pages.
• [****] Neil A. Gershenfeld, " When Things Start to Think," Henry Holt & Company, Inc., January 1999, 224 pages.
• [****] Ray Kurzweil, " The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence," Viking Press, December 1998.
• [****] Don Tapscott, Alex Lowy, David Ticoll, " Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of E-Business," McGraw-Hill, May 1998, 384 pages.
• [****] Don Tapscott, " Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation," Unknown, October 1997, 338 pages.
• [****] Steven Johnson, " Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate," Harper San Francisco, September 1997, 272 pages.
• [****] Marvin Cetron, Owen Davies, " Probable Tomorrows : How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years," St. Martin's Press, June 1997, 368 pages.
• [****] Don Tapscott, " The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril In The Age of Networked Intelligence," McGraw-Hill, May 1997, 342 pages.
• [****] Pierre Levy, Robert Bononno, " Collective Intelligence," Unknown, January 1997, 277 pages.
• [****] Nicholas Negroponte, " Being Digital," Vintage Books, January 1996.

• M. Richharia, Manu Richmaria, " Mobile Satellite Communications: Principles and Trends," Addison-Wesley, June 2001, 576 pages.
• Gerald G. Grant, " Managing Telecommunications and Networking Technologies in the 21st Century : Issues and Trends," Idea Group Publishing, April 2001, 280 pages.
• Thomas J. Fallon, " The Internet Today," Prentice Hall, January 2001, 277 pages.

• Barbara L. Morgenstern, Michael M. A. Mirabito, " New Communications Technologies," Focal Press, December 2000, 288 pages.
• Larry MacDonald, " Nortel Networks: How Innovation and Vision Created a Network Giant," Wiley, October 2000, 288 pages.
• August E. Grant, " Communication Technology Update," Butterworth-Heinemann, August 2000, 320 pages.

• Ted Gl Lewis, " Microsoft Rising : ... and Other Tales of Silicon Valley," IEEE, October 1999, 350 pages.
• Donald A. Norman, " The Invisible Computer," MIT Press, August 1999, 320 pages.
• Stephanie Mills, " Turning Away from Technology : A New Vision for the 21st Century," Sierra Club Books, October 1997.
• Timothy L. Jenkins, et al, " Black Futurists in the Information Age: Vision of a 21st Century Technological Renaissance," Khafra K Omrazeti/KMT Publications, October 1997, 284 pages.
• Andrew B. Whinston, Dale O. Stahl, Soon-Yong Choi, " The Economics of Electronic Commerce," Macmillan Technical Publishing, July 1997, 656 pages.
• Stephanie Ocko, " Doomsday Denied : A Survivor's Guide to the 21st Century," Fulcrum Pub, April 1997, 240 pages.
• Joseph F. Coates, John B. Mahaffie, Andy Hines, " 2025 : Scenarios of US and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology," Oakhill Press, September 1996, 516 pages.
• Hamish McRae, " The World in 2020 : Power, Culture and Prosperity," Harvard Business School Pr, September 1996, 320 pages.
• Adrian Berry, " The Next 500 Years : Life in the Coming Millennium," W H Freeman & Co., February 1996.
• Don Tapscott, Art Caston, " Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology," Unknown, November 1992, 288 pages.
• Dave Walter, " Today Then : America's Best Minds Look 100 Years into the Future on the Occasion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition," Farcountry Pr, November 1992.