Accidental Empires

Name: Accidental Empires
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ISBN: 9780887308550

ISBN-10: 0887308554

ISBN-13: 9780887308550

Edition: 1996 (Revised)

Authors: Robert X. Cringely

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Computer manufacturing is--after cars, energy production and illegal drugs--the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great success stories in American business. Accidental Empires is the trenchant, vastly readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the astoundingly odd personalities at its core--Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, etc. and the hacker culture they spawned as it does on the remarkable technology they created. Cringely reveals the manias and foibles of these men (they are always men) with deadpan hilarity and cogently demonstrates how their neuroses have shaped the computer business. But Cringely gives us much more than high-tech voyeurism and…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/13/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

For eight years, Robert X. Cringely's "Notes from the Field" column appeared weekly in Info World. Currently he can be seen in the public television series Triumph of the Nerds, based on this book. A former Stanford professor and foreign correspondent, he lives in Palo Alto, California.