Ask HN: How do I learn about the history of innovation?

  • Have a look at https://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Innovations-5th-Everett-Rog... It is not history, but I remember having read it from cover to cover and gaining a historic insight in the process

  • The Innovators by Walter Issacson

    A History of Modern Computing 2ed by Paul Ceruzzi

    The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

    Connections by James Burke (also a PBS series)

  • cf Burke's Connections