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Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark,

the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turn

health care on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bring

the vast majority of the industry's transactions online. So why was

he spending so much time on a computerized yacht, each feature

installed because, as one technician put it, "someone saw it on

Star Trek and wanted one just like it?"

Much of The New New Thing, to be fair, is devoted to the Healtheon

story. It's just that Jim Clark doesn't do startups the way most

people do. "He had ceased to be a businessman," as Lewis puts it,

"and become a conceptual artist." After coming up with the basic

idea for Healtheon, securing the initial seed money, and hiring the

people to make it happen, Clark concentrated on the building of

Hyperion, a sailboat with a 197-foot mast, whose functions are

controlled by 25 SGI workstations (a boat that, if he wanted to,

Clark could log onto and steer--from anywhere in the world).

Keeping up with Clark proves a monumental challenge--"you didn't

interact with him," Lewis notes, "so much as hitch a ride on the

back of his life"--but one that the author rises to meet with the

same frenetic energy and humor of his previous books, Liar's Poker

and Trail Fever.

Like those two books, The New New Thing shows how the pursuit of

power at its highest levels can lead to the very edges of the

surreal, as when Clark tries to fill out an investment profile for

a Swiss bank, where he intends to deposit less than .05 percent of

his financial assets. When asked to assess his attitude toward

financial risk, Clark searches in vain for the category of "people

who sought to turn ten million dollars into one billion in a few

months" and finally tells the banker, "I think this is for a

different ... person." There have been a lot of profiles of Silicon

Valley companies and the way they've revamped the economy in the

1990s--The New New Thing is one of the first books fully to depict

the sort of man that has made such companies possible. --Ron Hogan

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

作者简介：

Michael Lewis is the author of several books, including the

international bestseller Liar's Poker and The Money Culture. He has

been the American editor of the British weekly The Spectator and a

senior editor at The New Republic. Lewis lives in Paris, France,

with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their newborn daughter.

Preface xv

1 The Boat That Built Netscape

2 The Accelerated Grimace

3 The Past in a Box

4 Disorganization Man

5 nventing Jim Clark

6 The Boom and the Mast

7 Throwing Sand in Capitalists' Eyes

8 The Great Brain Quake of August 9, 1995

9 The Home of the Future?

10 God Mode

11 How Chickens Become Pork

12 New New Money

13 Cheese Sandwiches for Breakfast

14 Could Go Either Way

15 At Sea in the Home of the Future

16 Chasing Ghosts

17 The Turning Point

18 The New New Thing

19 The Past outside the Box

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Michael Lewis is the author of several books, including the international bestseller Liar's Poker. He has been the American editor of the British weekly The Spectator and a senior editor at The New Republic. He writes regularly for The New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg.

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书籍介绍

As American capitalism undergoes a seismic shift, Michael Lewis, author of the bestselling Liar's Poker, sets out on a Silicon Valley safari to find the true representative of the coming economic age. All roads lead to Jim Clark, the man who rewrote the rules of American capitalism as the founder of (so far) three multi-billion dollar companies-Silicon Graphics, Netscape, and Healtheon. Lewis's shrewd, often brilliantly funny, narrative provides ahead-of-the-curve observations about the Internet explosion and how the success of Silicon Valley companies is forcing a reassessment of traditional Wall-Street business models.

Weaving Clark's story together with that of this new business phenomenon, Lewis has drawn us a map of markets and free enterprise in the twenty-first century and blown the lid off the changing economy.