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  1. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    The American Home of the Future, it went without saying, would be controlled and monitored by a computer. The computer would permit the owner to enter into a new, fantastic relationship with his dwelling.
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  2. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    Moore's law came with a social corollary: high-tech could not remain high-tech for long.
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  3. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    In context the computer programmers appeared idle. They sat quietly, stared into their screens and sipped cappuccinos. And yet they were by far the most important people on board Hyperion.
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  4. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    The general idea was to sell their software first to rich technophiles and then, gradually, infiltrate the minds of the middle-class owners of suburban tract houses.
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  5. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    For a technology company to succeed, he argued, it needed always to be looking to destroy itself. If it didn't, someone else would.
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  6. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    This was only one of many recent changes along the capitalist food chain. Wall Street had gone from being the celebrities of the money culture to being its lackeys.
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  7. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    The technologist's tendency to commit all his resources to new technology,
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  8. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    This gorgeous financial myopia was common in the Valley, and one of the chief sources of its success.
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  9. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    Microsoft was twelve years old before people started talking about Microsoft millionaires; Netscape was one and a half.
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  10. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    The computer programmer creates the only path available to the computer user; the effect of his decisions on others is masked by their abstraction.
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  11. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    With every stroke of their keyboards they hacked a path through the forest that others would be required to follow.
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  12. Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon

    there must be some connection between his excessively romantic attitude toward computer programming and his appeal to women.
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