The new new thing
Subtitle: a Silicon Valley story
By: Michael Lewis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
First sentence: The original plan, which Lord knows didn't mean very much when that plan had been made by Jim Clark, was that we would test the boat quickly in the North Sea and then sail it across the Atlantic Ocean.
Description: " ... describes a vast paradigm shift in American culture: a shift away from conventional business models and definitions of success, and toward a new way of thinking about the world and our control over it. The rules of American capitalism--how money is raised, how the spoils are divided--have been drastically rewritten according to a single entrepreneur's vision of the future of the Internet ..."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. The boat that built Netscape; title: 2. The accelerated grimace; title: 3. The past in a box; title: 4. Disorganization Man; title: 5. Inventing Jim Clark; title: 6. The boom and the mast; title: 7. Throwing sand in capitalists' eyes; title: 8. The great brain quake of August 9, 1995; title: 9. The home of the future?; title: 10. God mode; title: 11. How chickens become pork; title: 12. New new money; title: 13. Cheese sandwiches for breakfast; title: 14. Could go either way; title: 15. At sea in the home of the future; title: 16. Chasing ghosts; title: 17. The turning point; title: 18. The new new thing; title: 19. The past outside the box; title: Epilogue; title: Acknowledgments.