"will automatically process instructions on the Internet that currently require human intervention." The book also revels in its June 1999 claim that Internet companies were overvalued. OK, so maybe gloating isn't what the world needs right now, but what's the point in swimming upstream if you can't brag to other fish about it?
Underworld by Don DeLillo
We admit it. We're just throwing in this book because we like it. The fictionalized opening scene at Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World, with Jackie Gleason and J. Edgar Hoover in the crowd. Prose as rich as John Chambers. The high-resolution details about life in suburbia and the wide-lens sweep on the arms race.
Come to think of it, the fact that this book hit the bestseller lists may illustrate the best marketing principle of all: Nothing sells like a good idea.
