The 10 Best Tech Books of the Year

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As technology continues to expand and grow, we need people to better help us make sense of it all. This year, a particular crop of writers published books that not only deepened our understanding of the Internet and social media, but did so with a certain eloquence and graceful brevity. The subjects were wide-ranging and exhaustive in approach: online disconnectedness, the history of the Bell Laboratories, information theory, the dawn of innovation, and John McAfee's wacky antics. Here, we present the 10 Best Tech Books of 2012.

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories

Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World

The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

John McAfee's Last Stand

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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