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The Mythical Man-Month is still assigned because the failure mode refuses to retire Who decides which technologies get remembered and which get forgotten Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death nailed the feed and missed the smartphone entirely Silicon Valley the series is funnier if you have worked inside the parody The Computer History Museum keeps source code that no company wanted to preserve Halt and Catch Fire invented a plausible history that real engineers recognized Acquired turns company history into a three hour episode with the financials intact Combined outlines duplicate entries instead of cross-listing them and the copies drift apart Why do books predicting the future of AI age so badly? Darknet Diaries makes security incidents legible without a line of code A working Difference Engine on display explains computation better than any chapter Company-sponsored histories quietly omit the projects that failed A 1960s technical journal shows how much was understood before anything was built The Soul of a New Machine reads like a novel and works as a primary document The Social Dilemma persuaded audiences while getting recommendation systems wrong Weapons of Math Destruction explained algorithmic harm to readers who never wrote code General Magic is a documentary about a product that shipped too early to survive Neuromancer set a vocabulary that engineers then spent decades trying to build