Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue xi

1 Net Assets 1

2 Progress of Science and Useful Arts 27

3 Competition and Its Discontents 51

4 The Artificial Science 81

5 Mortal Combat 111

6 Fresh from the Source 171

7 The Computer Ate My Industry 203

8 Down the Rabbit Hole 241

9 Sand in the Vaseline 273

Epilogue 309

Notes 323

Index 349