THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE
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THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 1
4 parts · 17 h 19 min
Silicon Valley and Hsinchu, 1987 to 2025. Morris Chang builds a factory that makes other people's chips and nothing of its own. Six years later three engineers meet in a Denny's in East San Jose and start a company to draw triangles faster for video games.
THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 2
4 parts · 15 h 36 min
Silicon Valley, 1991 to 2011. Tony Fadell spends a decade building handheld computers nobody buys — at General Magic, which invented most of the modern phone and sold almost none, and at Philips, which shipped two and withdrew.
THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 3
4 parts · 14 h 23 min
Stanford, Cambridge, Mountain View and London, 1994 to 2025. Two graduate students build a program that ranks web pages by who links to them, and it works so well that the hard problem stops being relevance and becomes machinery: how to copy the web onto cheap computers that keep breaking.
THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 4
4 parts · 15 h 1 min
Redmond, Washington, 1988 to 2025.
THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 43 min
Seattle, Sunnyvale, Cambridge and West Texas, 1994 to 2025. A quantitative analyst leaves a New York hedge fund to sell books by mail and discovers that the hard problem is not the store but the building behind it: how to find one object among millions and put it in a box.
THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 6
4 parts · 16 h 52 min
Two machines built in the same forty years by people who never worked on both. One burns methane and oxygen in a chamber that would melt if the propellant were not routed through its walls first; the other decides, millions of times a second and unreviewed, which of a billion items a person sees.