How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets (技术 和市场简史

作者： Andy Kessler著

出 版 社： 音像供货

出版时间： 2005-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 262印刷时间： 2005/01/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780060840976包装： 平装内容简介

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.

目录

Foreword

Logic and Memory

PART 1: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Cannons to Steam

Textiles

Positively Electric

Transportation Elasticity, Sea and Ra

PART 2: EARLY CAPITAL MARKETS

Funding British Trade

Capital Markets and Bubbles

Fool's Gold

PART 3: COMPONENTS NEEDED FOR COMPUTING

Communications

Power Generation

PART 4: DIGITAL COMPUTERS

Ballistics, Codes and Bombs

Transistors and Integrated Circuits Provide Scale

Software and Networks

GPS

PART 5: MODERN CAPITAL MARKETS

Modern Gold

The Business of Wall Street

Insurance

The Modern Stock Market

ENIAC Press Release

Bibliography

Index