Accidental Empires ^{2nd Ed.}

This work looks at the business of computing in the US, as computer science, as a business, and as a collection of extraordinary and eccentric characters. After automobiles, energy production, and illegal drugs, personal computers are one of the largest manufacturing industries in the world, and one of the great success stories for American business. This book is linked to a Channel 4 television series entitled "The Triumph of the Nerds".

1. The Demo-God
2. The Tyranny of the Normal Distribution
3. Why They Don't Call It Computer Valley
4. Amateur Hour
5. Role Models
6. Chairman Bill Leads the Happy Workers in Song
7. All IBM Stories Are True
8. Software Envy
9. Clones
10. The Prophet
11. Font Wars
12. On the Beach
13. Economics of Scale
14. Counter-Reformation
15. Future Computing
16. Wait, There's More
17. Do the Wave

Talk about myths. I know some of the persons in this book and reality is very far away.