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The new new thing : a Silicon Valley story / Michael Lewis

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: eng Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014Description: 349 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780393347814 (pbk)
  • 0393347818 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/70053/092
LOC classification:
  • HD 9696.63 L675n 2014
Contents:
Preface -- 1. The boat that built Netscape -- 2. The accelerated grimace -- 3. The past in a box -- 4. Disorganization Man -- 5. Inventing Jim Clark -- 6. The boom and the mast -- 7. Throwing sand in capitalists' eyes -- 8. The great brain quake of August 9, 1995 -- 9. The home of the future? -- 10. God mode -- 11. How chickens become pork -- 12. New new money -- 13. Cheese sandwiches for breakfast -- 14. Could go either way -- 15. At sea in the home of the future -- 16. Chasing ghosts -- 17. The turning point -- 18. The new new thing -- 19. The past outside the box -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billion-dollar companies. He also found much more, and the result-the New York Times best-selling book The New New Thing- is an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution."--Back cover
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HD 9696.63 L675n 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000143933

"First published as a Norton paperback 2014"--Title page verso.

Preface --
1. The boat that built Netscape --
2. The accelerated grimace --
3. The past in a box --
4. Disorganization Man --
5. Inventing Jim Clark --
6. The boom and the mast --
7. Throwing sand in capitalists' eyes --
8. The great brain quake of August 9, 1995 --
9. The home of the future? --
10. God mode --
11. How chickens become pork --
12. New new money --
13. Cheese sandwiches for breakfast --
14. Could go either way --
15. At sea in the home of the future --
16. Chasing ghosts --
17. The turning point --
18. The new new thing --
19. The past outside the box --
Epilogue --
Acknowledgments.

"In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billion-dollar companies. He also found much more, and the result-the New York Times best-selling book The New New Thing- is an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution."--Back cover

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