It's interesting in the "where do many commonly held beliefs and arguments originate?" sense. It looks at the birth of the American computer culture from the 1950s to the 1980s, mostly through the viewpoint of computer games and their development. As a chronicle of the teething period of the field it might only be interesting to those deeply involved in computer culture, but I suspect it holds wider appeal. It also has the remarkable ability to make the reader want to just go out and do something.