How We Got Here

A Slightly Irreverent History Of Technology And Markets

By: Andy Kessler

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Paperback | 16 November 2018

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Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money, with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them.

Expanding on themes first raised in his tour de force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the Industrial Revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets. These stories cut (by an unscrupulous editor) from the original manuscript were intended as a primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments. Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student at Cornell or on the day he started on Wall Street. This book connects the dots through history to how we got to where we are today.

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Non-Fiction Industry & Industrial Studies Media, Entertainment, Information & Communication Industries Information Technology Industries Business & Management Business Strategy Accounting & Finance Finance Investment & Securities Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Personal Finance

Foreword	p. vii
Logic and Memory	p. 1
The Industrial Revolution	p. 9
Cannons to Steam	p. 11
Textiles	p. 29
Positively Electric	p. 39
Transportation Elasticity, Sea and Rail	p. 46
Early Capital Markets	p. 63
Funding British Trade	p. 65
Capital Markets and Bubbles	p. 73
Fool's Gold	p. 82
Components Needed for Computing	p. 101
Communications	p. 103
Power Generation	p. 109
Digital Computers	p. 115
Ballistics, Codes and Bombs	p. 117
Transistors and Integrated Circuits Provide Scale	p. 136
Software and Networks	p. 152
GPS	p. 181
Modern Capital Markets	p. 187
Modern Gold	p. 189
The Business of Wall Street	p. 194
Insurance	p. 210
The Modern Stock Market	p. 222
ENIAC Press Release	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 247
Index	p. 249
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