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This is basically the history of the microchip up to the near present. It will give you a great perspective on how the excitement and foresight of people like Bob Noyce and Jack Kilby led to the profusion and pervasiveness of this ubitiquous technology. It also shows how the world has grown dependent on Taiwan to keep producing cutting edge chips to maintain America's advantage for now.

This book was somewhat interesting. The writer's concept of Net states such as the FAANG companies having more users than some countries have people indicates that our sense of state is diminishing and wants to be supplanted by these few companies. It's funny how we're called users. Is the internet a drug? Much of the book told me what other books have told me and the info included is a bit dated in 2026.

Well, the trouble with this book is I'm 58. I really enjoyed books about Rakim,Ice T and Fab Five Freddy and the inception of Hip Hop. The author reads M's rhymes a bit too often and uses a lot of foul language. The nearest I can tell M is a kind of hero to the drug addled drunk. The explains some things of interest about autotune and how white people arw appropriating Hip Hop via sub-genres. It happened with Blues .

I enjoyed reading this and just went back thru it via Audible.com. I reccommend watching the videos still up on YT via Kevin Allocca's Videocracy playlist. It really helps to visualize and better understand how authentic video has been supposedly revolutionized by individuals and better and better hardware. At 58 years old much of what's on YT is entertaining,but certainly not elevating. Novelty will wane.

This book was only somewhat interesting. As stated by others here the cover did a great job getting readers and buyers to purchase the book. There are some insights into why people choose to own yachts,but that is one or two chapters. There are some other intruiging topics covered in depth,but not every one had the allure of yachts. There's a long chapter excoriating Trump,which frankly lost my attention.