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#23 The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

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The Engineers and the Price System by Michael Lewis

In 1921, Veblenz predicted that engineers would one day rule the US economy. He didn't much care for financiers and captains - he thought they were parasites. Clark drops out of high school but then winds up going to the Navy. He gets a degree, then an PhD and then another master. I think he has a PhD in Computer Science and a Masters in Physics. The power is shifting to the engineers who can create the companies. That's only as it should be.

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