Opinion: The 10 best tech books of 2023

I'd recommend skipping right past most of the "big" tech books of the year - especially 'Elon Musk' by Walter Isaacson and 'Going Infinite' by Michael Lewis, both of which sadly succumb to the kind of tech-founder hero worship that's increasingly outmoded and often embarrassing. — Image by Freepik

In the tech world, 2023 was a year of pure chaos.

There was the artificial intelligence boom that breathed life into an industry in dire want of its next big thing, delivering a torrent of new startups, investment and hype. There was also the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the fraud conviction of crypto titan Sam Bankman-Fried, the implosion of Twitter and downward spiral of Elon Musk, who capped his year by telling advertisers fleeing his platform to "go (expletive) yourself" on a very public stage. Google lost an antitrust lawsuit to Epic Games, and the future and shape of the web seem uncertain as ever.