If not quite Notes from the Underground , it is certainly a glimpse into the mind of someone both in the thick of the entrepreneurial world and with enough maturity to try and put all the craziness in perspective. It is the last he wishes to explore, and he does so in a clever way by comparing the history of computers to evolution on Earth. No doubt one of those little start-up critters currently skittering around unnoticed at the feet of the ailing giants. He gets a little loose with the facts at times , but his analysis is fundamentally correct. In all, an exemplary effort by Andreas, one with far more insight than that offered by most stock analysts and other industry gurus who were insanely optimistic over the last year, and are now busily covering their tracks while loudly bewailing the present.
Lightning never hits the same place twice.
The Next Big Thing always pops up somewhere new. Unfortunately, it is here that Andreas makes a mistake. It always comes out of someplace you never expected. This attitude is not only wrong, but self-defeating. To assume that the next boom cannot be predicted is to guarantee that you will miss or arrive too late to take advantage of it.