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The new new thing: a silicon valley story

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In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology entrepreneur, the true representative of the coming age. All roads lead to a man who is about to achieve an unprecedented hat trick with the creation of his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape — which launched the Information Age — and now Healtheon, a startup that may turn the $1.5 trillion health-care industry on its head.

Despite the variety of his achievements, this guy, Jim Clark, thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat … not just an ordinary yacht, but the world’s largest single-mast vessel, a machine more complex than a 747. It is claimed that the boat can be sailed via computer from the owner’s desk in San Francisco and that the new code may contain the seeds of the next billion-dollar coup. Whatever the next new thing after Healtheon turns out to be, Michael Lewis is invited to be a fly on the wall aboard Hyperion as the shape of the future is revealed.

On the wings of Lewis’s celebrated storytelling, the reader takes the ride of a lifetime through this strange landscape of geeks and billionaires. We get the inside story of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft; we sit in the room as Healtheon management pitches the investment bankers on the idea that Healtheon is the next Microsoft; we get queasy as the great boat sets out into the rage of the North Atlantic in winter.

Ingeniously conceived as both a history of the Internet revolution and a narrative unfolding at warp speed on the high-tech frontier, The New New Thing 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. And in every anecdote and character sketch of this shrewd and brilliantly funny book, Michael Lewis is drawing us a map of markets and free enterprise in the twenty-first century.

Michael Lewis is the author of several books, including the international bestseller Liar’s Poker. He has been the American editor of the British weekly The Spectator and a senior editor at The New Republic. Currently a visiting professor at the University of California-Berkeley, Lewis lives in Berkeley with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their newborn daughter.

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338.04 LEW t

Publisher

New York : W.W. Norton & Company., 2000

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268 hlm; 24 cm

Language

English

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0393048136

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338.04

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Entrepreneurship

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