Not the list I expected. I was looking for technical books like, say, Kernighan and Ritchie, or "Classical Electrodynamics" by J.D. Jackson. This is a list of popular books "about" technology.
Empathy Diaries and Darwin Among the Machines don't seem to rate, being much more rooted on the East Coast Harvard/MIT cultural bubble but both changed how I see computer technology and its role in society.