

Core Memory
Ashlee Vance
Core Memory is a podcast about science and technology hosted by best-selling author and filmmaker Ashlee Vance.
Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. Along with the stories, he's written best-selling books like Elon Musk’s biography, made an Emmy-nominated tech TV show watched by millions and produced films for HBO and Netflix. The goal has always been to bring the tales of complex technology and compelling people to the public and give them a path into exceptional and unusual worlds they would not normally have a chance to experience. www.corememory.com
Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. Along with the stories, he's written best-selling books like Elon Musk’s biography, made an Emmy-nominated tech TV show watched by millions and produced films for HBO and Netflix. The goal has always been to bring the tales of complex technology and compelling people to the public and give them a path into exceptional and unusual worlds they would not normally have a chance to experience. www.corememory.com
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Core Memory podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
When the Heavens Went on Sale
The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The end of history

#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
West of Eden
An American Place
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Whole Earth
The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Why greatness cannot be planned

#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The diamond age
Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Micromillennium
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Move Fast and Break Things
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Starship Troopers

#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Thinking, Fast and Slow

#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
World Without Mind

#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
From counterculture to cyberculture
Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025
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#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Future Is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dormouse
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry