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by Animats
1488 days ago
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Better URL. [1] It's in the Stanford libraries, or at least was when I read it years ago. Also useful is "Men and Volts", an official history of General Electric.[2] From an investment perspective, it's worth reading the early history of the electrical industry, because it's very much like the history of the computer industry. Just a century earlier. You get to see something go from cutting edge technology with high margins to dull and boring with low margins, over half a century. You get to see the transition from thousands of little companies to a few big ones. As you keep going into the radio era, you see the transition from paid services to ad-supported ones.
It will all look very familiar. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Manufacturers-1875-1900-St... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Men-volts-story-General-electric/dp/B... |
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