How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology & Markets

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“A great book on how we went from the steam engine to the Internet, as well as how the markets that financed it all came to be” (John Maudlin).
Bestselling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money, with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them.
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. 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. This book connects the dots through history to how we got to where we are today.
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000JMKT64
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins e-books
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 27, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3.8 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061745812
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #380,130 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #90 in Engineering Patents & Inventions #142 in Business Technology Innovation #303 in General Technology & Reference
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