Top Tech Policy Books Of 2008

December 12, 2008

Need some reading material for your holiday vacation? Adam Thierer at the Progress and Freedom Foundation has some suggestions. He recently posted his picks for the most important tech policy book of 2008. Thierer's top 10 include:

The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Blown to Bits: Your Life Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Patent Failure: How Judges Bureaucrats & Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
Understanding Privacy

Juliana Gruenwald

Tech Writer

E-Mail: jgruenwald@nationaljournal.com.

Juliana Gruenwald has been covering tech and telecom issues for more than a decade for National Journal, Interactive Week, BNA and Congressional Quarterly. This is her second stint with National Journal. She was recruited by NJ in 1998 to help launch its first tech policy publication, Technology Daily. She left in 2000 to cover international tech and telecom issues for Ziff Davis Media's Interactive Week magazine. She started her career at United Press International as the wire service's first Helen Thomas Intern. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota. A Minneapolis native, she misses the lakes but not the cold.

Josh Smith

Tech Reporter

E-Mail: joshsmith@nationaljournal.com.

Josh Smith covers technology policy as a staff reporter for National Journal. He previously interned at National Journal Daily, a Senate press office, and the Deseret News in Salt Lake City where he covered the state legislature, courts, and crime. In 2009 he graduated with honors from Southern Utah University after managing an award-winning student newspaper as editor-in-chief. Josh has received state, regional and national awards for his political and policy reporting, including first place in CapitolBeat’s 2009 Best of Statehouse Reporting college competition. A native of drop-dead-gorgeous Utah, Josh lives in Virginia with his wife, Amber.

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