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Pirates, Prophets And Pioneers
Pirates, Prophets And Pioneers
Sep 23, 2024 4:30 AM

Author:Deborah Spar

Pirates, Prophets And Pioneers

The advance of digital technology is creating whole new markets and industries. Telecommunications is merging into media; information is blurring into entertainment; and commercial ventures of all types are being pulled into the amorphous space of the internet.Pirates, Prophets and Pioneers examines how these new technologies are pushing at the boundaries of existing rules and how governments are likely to respond to them. Using material gathered from four years of academic research and confidential interviews, Debora Spar brings us inside the world of business and politics in the digital age. In the process, she also takes us back in time, to explore to older technologies and earlier battles. Looking at the advent of radio and telegraphy, the rise of trans-oceanic trade and the development of satellite television, Spar finds striking parallels to our own time (for example, online music and software wars) and critical lessons for both business and politics.

Reviews

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—— WILLIAM COHAN, author of House of Cards and Money and Power

In the tech industry, they say that you learn more from a failure than from a hit. Well, if that's true, Losing the Signal will give you a postdoctoral education. Reading the inside story of the BlackBerry's helpless flameout is like watching any other train wreck: You're horrified, but you can't look away.

—— DAVID POGUE, author of Pogue's Basics and founder of Yahootech.com

Losing the Signal tells of the marriage and divorce of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, how two opposites built RIM into a world-beater and how they lost it. This is first-class reporting that reads like a juicy novel, with one amazing story after another. A terrific book.

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—— BETH COMSTOCK, vice chair of GE

The book you need in your life ... a simultaneously funny, warm, inspiring and straight-talking guide on how to go about getting shit done

—— Marie Claire

A compellingly motivational read

—— The Telegraph

Deeply personal and filled with brazen, hilarious moments and cunning and frank observations, don't be surprised if you laugh out loud

—— SheerLuxe

Amoruso's voice is accessible and charmingly self-deprecating without losing the effortless cool that characterizes her clothes...Being anti-establishment is teh old cool. The new cool is playing by your own rules and still winning by their standards

—— New York Times Book Review

Part memoir, part management guide and part girl-power manifesto. A sort of Lean In for misfits, it offers young women a candid guide to starting a business and going after what they want

—— Washington Post

A power manifesto for strong, ambitious young women ... Amoruso teaches the innovative and entrepreneurial among us to play to our strengths, learn from our mistakes, and know when to break a few of the traditional rules

—— Vanity Fair

If you read one book with a hashtag for a title this year, make it #GIRLBOSS

—— TechCrunch

It's easy to get the sense, reading Lean In, that Sandberg is writing for women who've already made it. #GIRLBOSS is for those who haven't, which means it is aimed at people who have nothing to lose, which makes it a much riskier and more enjoyable manifesto

—— New York Magazine

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—— Cosmopolitan

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—— Cosmopolitan

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—— Helen Brown , Daily Telegraph

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He seems so perfectly suited to the form… [A] well-observed collection that one wishes was twice as long.

—— Carl Wilkinson , Financial Times

This is a superb analysis of modern pop music.

—— i

Seabrook has written an interesting book, smearing away some of the gloss and glamour from the music industry, to reveal details of its inner workings… An interesting book overall on a global industry that has as many secrets as glitterballs.

—— Paul Cheney , Nudge
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