The New New Thing (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Lewis
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography, economics, and technology
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: California’s Silicon Valley; Plainview, Texas; Amsterdam; and London
- Principal Characters: James “Jim” Clark, Michael Lewis, Wolter Huisman, Allan Prior, Glenn Mueller, Ed McCracken, D’Anne Schjerning, Hazel McClure
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Science and technology, Economics
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Future, California, West, U.S., Economics, London, Ships, 1990’s, Entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs, Netherlands or Dutch people, Texas, Information science or systems, Computers, Corporations
- Locales: London, England, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Plainview, TX, Silicon Valley, CA
Some reviewers have criticized Michael Lewis for focusing his biography of Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI) and Netscape, on Clark’s building of the world’s largest schooner, the Hyperion, and on its transatlantic crossing virtually without human intervention. Lewis, toward the middle of this exciting and informative book, justifies his focus by quoting Clark, who said, “There is nothing more satisfying to me than to create a complete self-contained world when a computer is controlling it.” Doing this has been the focus of much of Clark’s work.
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