Out of 600 entries, 16 books made the longlist
Financial Times announced the longlist Business Book of the Year 2024. In collaboration with Schroders, an investment consultancy, the longlist covers 16 books, falling into four categories, namely; technology, economics, biography and organizations.
Being held since 2005, there were more than 600 entries filtered and reviewed by FT journalists. A longlist of 16 titles now remain in the running to become the 20th winner of the £30,000 award, per FT’s announcement. The short list will come out on Sept 17, while the winner will be handed out the trophy on Dec 9. (Here are book recommendations from Bill Gates)
In this article, I’ll share the five technology books in the longlist
1-Supremacy (Parmy Olson – @macmillanusa)
As a tech writer @bloomberg, Olson’s book reveals the story of the battle between Demis Hassabis, CEO at DeepMind and Sam Altman, CEO at OpenAI. The book will be coming in September.
2-The Algorithm (@hilke_s – @hachettebooks) Please
As an investigative reporter, Hilke Schellmann handles the impact of AI in the workplace, Schellmann warns how algorithms can amplify bias and cause more harm than good.
3-The Everything War (@danamattioli – @penguinukbooks)
Mattioli is a reporter @wsj and her book brings a critical approach at the dominant influence of Amazon in ecommerce and cloud computing.
4-Unit X (Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff – @simonandschuster)
Shah is a VC and Kirchhoff is an expert of emerging technologies. The duo’s book is an insider look at the elite Pentagon unit devoted to bringing Silicon Valley’s tech to the U.S. military.
5-The War Below (@scheydere – @simonschuster)
Scheyder is a senior reporter @reuters and his books explores the people that live on the energy transition’s front lines and an urgent guide to the rapidly growing critical minerals supply chain.
Opening image: Financial Times
