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Albert Cory

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Chicago, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Science, Business

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I grew up on the far South Side of Chicago, where both my parents had grown up as well; in fact, I went to the same high school that both of them attended (Fenger, whose most famous alumnus was Eliot Ness). My two brothers were much older than I was, so I was practically an only child. I went to the library religiously. I graduated third in a high school class of 729.

When I started college, as the first of my family to attend college, I was an Electrical Engineering major. After 8 weeks I had switched into Psychology, which horrified my parents. I was never really a science nerd, though, and didn’t like the Chemistry and Physics courses. Nonetheless, after a year of Psych, I decided I wanted to have a job when I left school, and I switched ...more

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	Inventing the Future 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Bucks (Silicon Valley From the Inside Book 2) by Albert Cory (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Sainsbury (Illustrator), Samantha Mason (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This New Internet Thing: A retired WW II vet conquers the Internet (Silicon Valley From the Inside Book 3) by Albert Cory (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Sainsbury (illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Who Benefits from the “High-Speed Train”?

In my last two articles (Parts One and Two) I wrote about high-speed trains in other countries (all carrying passengers now) and California, which hasn’t laid any track in 17 years. Now I ask the question that Cicero asked in ancient Rome:

Cui bono? (To whose advantage was it?)

Where did all the money go? Who profited? And regardless of whether it was “legal” we’ll ask “was it moral or was it

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