Cassidy, John, — dot.con: the greatest story ever sold.

NY, HarperCollins, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. FDR's chief scientific advisor in 1943 writes an article that fortells the future & inspires scientists who built the internet. Vannevar Bush, FDR's adviser, sat down in 1945 to write a magazine article about the future. His vision of a desktop computer that would contain all of human knowledge inspired the scientists who built the Internet. Here Cassidy, one of the country's leading financial journalists and a staff writer for the New Yorker, relates the stories of Netscape, Yahoo!, America Online, Amazon.com and other Internet companies.