9. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days

Author: Jessica Livingston

This book is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies, who are celebrities now, about what happened in the very earliest days.

Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? 

Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is a must read.

8. The Myths of Innovation

Author: Scott Berkun

This book takes a careful look at the history of innovation, including the software and Internet Age, to reveal how ideas truly become successful innovations.

How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this far. This book is a must read for those in the tech industry.

7. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Author: Ray Kurzweil

This is thought provoking book which speaks about technological singularity as being the blind point in human evolution, the moment when on Earth could appear entities smarter than humans. So, what will happen during that “clash”? Nobody knows.