Byrne Hobart's Book Recommendations

Digital Apollo

"Apollo pulled computers forward by a lot! Digital Apollo is a really fun book, lots of earliest cases for now-common things (software replacing hardware with the heat shield, programming projects running chronically behind schedule, worries about computers automating jobs)."

Blood Meridian

"We need a federal program to airdrop copies of Blood Meridian over politically-engaged neighborhoods where the median level of education is a postgraduate degree, in order to remind people of the existence of senseless, meaningless violence. It's very sad; not much else to it."