Dealers of Lightning

If you have ever wondered how the many of the basic technologies that people deal with every day – computers, networks, the internet – were invented, and who the people behind those inventions were, this is the book for you. I found it particularly interesting how well the people and companies who created the internet succumbed to creative destruction. In almost every circumstance, it was a band of rebels who came out of nowhere to establish the now dominant technology. The parent company or the current front-runners were almost always enamored with their current technology and couldn’t bear to look around for something better or more efficient, or even something that just worked.

Dealers of Lightning