30 Best Tech Books to Gift in 2026: Biographies, Startup Histories, Exposés
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Title: 30 Best Tech Books to Gift in 2026: Biographies, Startup Histories, Exposés
It is tough to overestimate Big Tech’s influence on the modern world. But how did we get here? The best tech books unravel the rise and, occasionally, fall of some of the dominant companies and characters that created the gadgets and software we spend so much of our lives using.
很难高估大型科技公司对现代世界的影响。但我们是如何走到这一步的呢？最优秀的科技书籍揭示了一些主导公司和人物的兴起，以及偶尔的衰落，正是他们创造了我们生活中花费大量时间使用的各种小工具和软件。
You’ll find intensely detailed biographies, in-depth company histories, and plenty of drama and enlightenment in these tech tomes, and they also make great gifts for the techy folks in your life. You may also be interested in our Gifts for Book Lovers, Best Cookbooks, and Best Kindles guides.
在这些科技巨著中，你会发现极其详尽的传记、深入的公司历史，以及大量的戏剧性和启迪，它们也是送给生活中科技爱好者的绝佳礼物。你可能还会对我们的“爱书人礼物”、“最佳食谱”和“最佳 Kindle”指南感兴趣。
Updated October 2026: I added five books, including Apple in China, More Everything Forever, Gouged, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, and The Nerd Reich.
2026 年 10 月更新：我增加了五本书，包括《中国制造的苹果》（Apple in China）、《更多一切永远》（More Everything Forever）、《敲诈》（Gouged）、《人工智能国家的兴衰》（The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State）以及《书呆子帝国》（The Nerd Reich）。
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt. Charting Nvidia’s rise to become one of the most valuable companies on earth, this biography of cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang is educational and entertaining. Witt explains how the company spun GPU (graphics processing unit) manufacturing for gaming into parallel processing and a marriage of hardware and software that has powered the rise of AI.
《思维机器：黄仁勋、英伟达与全球最令人垂涎的微芯片》，作者斯蒂芬·威特（Stephen Witt）。这本关于联合创始人兼首席执行官黄仁勋的传记记录了英伟达崛起为全球最有价值公司之一的过程，既有教育意义又充满趣味。威特解释了该公司如何将用于游戏的 GPU（图形处理器）制造转化为并行处理，以及硬件与软件的结合如何推动了人工智能的兴起。
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. A well-deserved winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book should be required reading for anyone who works in technology or harbors a curiosity about how it came to dominate our lives. First published in 1981, the book reveals the inner workings of Data General in the 1970s as the company strives to design and release a successful next-generation minicomputer.
《新机器的灵魂》，作者特雷西·基德（Tracy Kidder）。作为普利策奖当之无愧的得主，这本书应该是任何从事科技工作或对科技如何主导我们生活感到好奇的人的必读书目。该书首次出版于 1981 年，揭示了 20 世纪 70 年代 Data General 公司在努力设计并发布成功的下一代小型计算机时的内部运作情况。
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein. This fascinating dive down the rabbit hole of Covid conspiracy is ostensibly about how people confuse Naomi Klein with Naomi Wolf. Klein is a leftist journalist and climate activist; Wolf was a third-wave feminist but is now a rabid anti-vaxxer.
《分身：镜像世界之旅》，作者娜奥米·克莱恩（Naomi Klein）。这次对新冠阴谋论兔子洞的迷人探索，表面上是关于人们如何将娜奥米·克莱恩与娜奥米·沃尔夫（Naomi Wolf）混淆。克莱恩是一位左翼记者和气候活动家；沃尔夫曾是第三波女性主义者，但现在是一位狂热的反疫苗者。
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Released just 19 days after the death of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, this astonishing biography takes a deep dive into his life and goes some way toward explaining his enduring legacy. Isaacson was picked by Jobs himself, who granted more than 40 interviews to his biographer and reportedly exerted no control over the final edit.
《史蒂夫·乔布斯传》，作者沃尔特·艾萨克森（Walter Isaacson）。这本令人惊叹的传记在苹果联合创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯去世仅 19 天后出版，深入探讨了他的生活，并在一定程度上解释了他持久的遗产。艾萨克森是由乔布斯本人亲自挑选的，乔布斯接受了传记作者 40 多次采访，据报道并未对最终定稿进行任何干预。
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson. The dark side of the internet’s hive mind is brought into sharp relief by Ronson’s cast of characters—all have been publicly shamed via the internet. From the fascinating tale of Jonah Lehrer’s plagiarism to the vilification of Justine Sacco after an ill-advised joke tweet decried as racist, Ronson digs into the stories behind the scandals and looks at the havoc relentless online shaming can wreak.
《所以你被公开羞辱了》，作者乔恩·罗森（Jon Ronson）。互联网群体思维的阴暗面通过罗森笔下的人物得到了鲜明的体现——他们都曾通过互联网被公开羞辱。从乔纳·莱勒（Jonah Lehrer）抄袭的迷人故事，到贾斯汀·萨科（Justine Sacco）因一条被指责为种族主义的不当玩笑推文而遭受的诋毁，罗森深入挖掘了丑闻背后的故事，并审视了无情的网络羞辱所能造成的破坏。