Technology of the Future

• [1] Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Lives by Dr Michio Kaku

• [2] The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

• [3] Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

• [4] The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives by Frank Moss

• [5] Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

• [6] The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku

• [7] The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 Of The World’s Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century by Mike Wallace

• [8] The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change by Al Gore

• [9] This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future Edited by John Brockman

• [10] The Wonderful Future that Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past by Gregory Benford

Invention & Discovery

• [1] How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary by Louis A. Bloomfield

• [2] Scientific American: How Things Work by Michael Wright, Mukul Patel

• [3] Science: The Definitive Visual Guide by Robert Dinwiddie, Giles Sparrow

• [4] The Science Book: Everything You Need to Know About the World and How It Works by National Geographic

• [5] National Geographic Science of Everything: How Things Work in Our World

• [6] The Big Idea: How Breakthroughs of the Past Shape the Future  – National Geographic

• [7] Timelines of Science DK Publishing

• [8] Visual Timeline of Inventions by Richard Platt

• [9] National Geographic Concise History of Science and Invention: An Illustrated Time Line

• [10] Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs by Paul Parsons

• [11] How Stuff Works by Marshall Brain

• [12] More How Stuff Works  by Marshall Brain 

• [13] How Cool Stuff Works by Chris Woodford, Ben Morgan

• [14] Popular Mechanics Gadget Planet: 150 Gizmos & Inventions that Changed the World by Popular Mechanics

• [15] Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons, and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them by William Gurstelle

• [16] Wonders of the Past: Ancient Inventions by Peter James, Nick Thorpe

• [17]  How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

• [18] Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity by Rodney Carlisle

• [19] Circuits: How Electronic Things Work Edited by Henry Fountain

Medical Invention & Discovery

• [1] Great Discoveries in Medicine Edited by William Bynum, Helen Bynum

Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology

• [1] The Biomedical Engineering Handbook: Four Volume Set by Joseph D. Bronzino, Donald R. Peterson

• [2] Medicine by Design: The Practice and Promise of Biomedical Engineering by Fen Montaigne

• [3] The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol, MD

• [4] The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands by Eric Topol, MD

• [5] Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life by J. Craig Venter

Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

• [1] Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology by Bharat Bhushan

• [2] Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology Edited by William A. Goddard III, Donald Brenner, Sergey Edward Lyshevski, Gerald J Iafrate

• [3] Nanophysics and Nanotechnology: An Introduction to Modern Concepts in Nanoscience  by Edward L. Wolf

• [4] Nanostructures and Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications by Guozhong Cao, Ying Wang

• [5] Nanofuture: What’s Next For Nanotechnology by J. Storrs Hall

• [6] Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big Idea by Mark A. Ratner, Daniel Ratner

• [7] Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (September 16; 1986) by Eric Drexler