How We Got Here
Andy Kessler made his
How We Got Here : A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets
available as DRM-free PDF.
Expanding on themes first raised in his tour-de-force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the industrial revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets. These stories cut [by an unscrupulous editor] from the original manuscript were intended as a Primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments.Kessler unfolds the historical context of our technology driven society. Highly recommended!Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student at Cornell or on the day he started on Wall Street.