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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get by Robert X. Cringely
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions,…

by Robert X. Cringely

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... War respectively. For people like me, who work in the IT/internet biz, Hackers, Where the wizards stay up late, Accidental Empires and Insanely Great are fast and fun reads. And anyone who is into Trek should find Future perfect and Is data Human? fun reads. All but the ...

Busifer in The Green Dragon : New laptop (Mar 19, 2008, 2:07pm)

... for Apple, LOL. I can right-click on my wintel laptop, you know. And have been able to since forever ;-) ETA - Accidental empires is also quite... "fun", if you're into that general genre *wrinkles nose and smiles*

Busifer in ITCanon : kicking this off.... (Nov 14, 2006, 2:09pm)

... that - Hackers, Microserfs, Where Wizards Stay up Late I think was the most popular ones. Personally I also liked Accidental Empires. But today I would add Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook and Reload rethinking woman + cyberculture edited by Mary Flanagan and maybe Crypto ...

... that, since I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the definition. And last but not least, I'm about halfway through Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely, a history of the birth of the computer age and industry. If you're interested the business of technology and you don't read

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