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The poster hopes that nonfiction works will start with the technology itself, tracing its purpose and evolution.
i wish more nonfiction took the perspective of the technology at the heart of a story instead of just the antics of the people around it.
i want to know the telos of a body of hardware or software and understand its unfolding through time.
what books do this well?
The poster hopes that more nonfiction works will adopt the perspective of making the story's core technology the focus.
The poster wants to understand the purpose of a piece of hardware or software and how it unfolds over time.
The poster asks which books do this well.
The following is analysis, separate from reported facts. Verify important claims independently.
This is a question about reading preferences and book recommendations, focusing on how the technology itself develops rather than on the actions of people around the technology.
It proposes a way of understanding technical subjects through reading: focusing on the technology's purpose and long-term evolution.
If you want to understand how hardware or software develops over time, you can look for nonfiction works that adopt the perspective of the technology itself.
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