The MANIAC
I have been interested in the history of technology for a long time, and more specifically in what new technology does to the society that produces it. That is what led me to Labatut. He writes about scientists and engineers, but he does it the way an anthropologist would, which is not how these stories normally get told. This was the first of his books I read, and I liked it enough that I picked up another one five weeks later. ...