{"id":10077,"date":"2014-11-07T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2015-01-18T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T21:01:17","slug":"fire-in-the-valley-third-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/fire-in-the-valley-third-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the Valley, Third Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pragprog.com\/book\/fsfire\/fire-in-the-valley\">The Pragmatic Bookshelf<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1937785769\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">Amazon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pragprog.com\/book\/fsfire\/fire-in-the-valley\"><p>This completely revised and expanded third edition brings the story to its completion, chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas Engelbart and the retirements of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; the shift away from the PC to the cloud and portable devices; and what the end of the PC era means for issues such as personal freedom and power, and open source vs. proprietary software.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The earlier edition that I read was good.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-01-18): Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine are interviewed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/floppydays.libsyn.com\/floppy-days-episode-29-freiberger-swaine-fire-in-the-valley\">Floppy Days podcast<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pragmatic Bookshelf (Amazon): This completely revised and expanded third edition brings the story to its completion, chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas Engelbart and the retirements of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[406,63,295,30],"class_list":["post-10077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appleii","tag-book","tag-history","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10532,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}