Mathematical prodigy and gifted programmer, Richard Stallman is the initiator of the free software movement, software that is technically and legally free for others to use, study, modify and duplicate for distribution. The development of free software from the 1980s onwards changed the way we think about the use of computers.

Paul Kennedy, a historian fascinated by the conditions that lead to wars as well as those that put an end to them, has devoted almost his entire career to this subject. He also seeks to understand why some nations manage to develop while others find it difficult.

Why would one read a fiction if reality is even more stupefying? That feeling has been shared by those who, like myself, read Sandworm: being destabilized by the extent taken by cyberwarfare in interstate conflicts, by the blatant weakness of some of the most essential economic systems such as energy plants, distribution networks, postal system, food supply chain, railroad network.

This book is devoted to the art of the breakthrough in economics: what are the most remarkable characteristics of today's innovators, especially in the digital sector? It is mainly the ability to adopt disruptive thinking and to consider the value chain from unexpected and innovative angles. It is impossible to understand the digital revolution facing us without opening this book.

Of course we hear everywhere about the data revolution. For most of us, it is difficult to really understand why it is possible to extract large amounts of intelligence from data. Nate Silver is extraordinary in that he illustrates with particular simplicity how statistics can work miracles and help us understand our world better. In fact, this book is not about Bigdata or technology, but statistics.

This book might be amongst the top five I ever read about digital transformation. What is so special in it is that it cover especially well the connection in between digital transformation - culture, technology, governance, IT architecture and ‘platformization' in one hand and AI on the other. It points out the fact that, if some corporations could have the impression that they were transformed without changing they core organization, that would no longer work with the AI revolution.

In a disruptive economy, where digital technology is now predominant, innovation must not be done in the same way. In the age of open data, we need to make way for open innovation, or how to revolutionize the enterprise and its management by calling on the millions of individuals who make up the market, and who offer so much potential for innovation and growth.

This book is devoted to the art of the breakthrough in economics: what are the most remarkable characteristics of today's innovators, especially in the digital sector? It is mainly the ability to adopt disruptive thinking and to consider the value chain from unexpected and innovative angles. It is impossible to understand the digital revolution facing us without opening this book.

Gathering testimonies from Huawei's first employees, the book is captivating for what these stories evoke: stories of employees dedicated to their company to the point of accepting to be poorly fed or housed in obscure representative offices located in the most unlikely places of the world.

If this is not THE book to read for those seeking to understand the keys to the success of the American innovation model, it is nevertheless difficult to find better. The book retraces the entire history of Silicon Valley, starting at the beginning, that is to say, the mythical times, those of the founding of Stanford, then the Los Alamos project and Caltech.