Forbes Greatest Technology Stories: Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern BusinessHere is the fascinating story of the making of the high-tech business revolution and the birth of the Digital Age. Journalist Jeffrey Young chronicles six decades of unbridled technological innovation, taking you inside today's business empires and introducing you to the dreamers, the schemers, the entrepreneurs, and the inventors who built them, including: * Millionaire-playboy turned visionary-CEO Thomas Watson, Jr.-how he helped pioneer the business computing industry in the early 1950s and made IBM its undisputed master for the next three decades * Fast-talking hippie-entrepreneur Steve Jobs and engineering genius Steve Wozniak-how they went from penniless "wireheads" to high-tech multimillionaires overnight * Bill Gates-whose talent for turning other people's creative innovations into his own marketplace success was at the heart of Microsoft's brilliant strategy-a tactic Gates perfected at a very tender age * How a handful of visionaries turned a Cold War communications system into the global phenomenon called the Internet Packed with all the excitement of scientific discovery and nail-biting suspense of entrepreneurial brinksmanship, Forbes Greatest Technology Stories is must reading for every business professional. Forbes (r) is a registered trademark of Forbes Inc. Its use is pursuant to a license agreement with forbes Inc. |
Contents
Pioneers Pirates Calculators Computers | 1 |
Big Blue The Mainframe Computer 32 | 33 |
Quantum Leap Transistors Semiconductors | 63 |
Bits Memory Minicomputers the Mouse | 87 |
Chips Integrated Circuits Microprocessors | 115 |
Mechanics Kits Microcomputers | 148 |
Wireheads The Apple Computer | 177 |
PCs The IBM Personal Computer | 212 |
Hard Core Windows | 245 |
Airwaves MCI Cell Phones | 279 |
Webs Networks the Internet | 309 |
Notes | 345 |
Acknowledgments | 353 |
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