Download From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives AudioBook Free
From Silk to Silicon explains to the storyline of who these women and men were, what they have, how they achieved it, and exactly how their achievements continue steadily to shape our world today. They include:
- Genghis Khan, who united east and western by conquest and by opening new trade routes built on groundbreaking transport, communications, and management innovations.
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who arose from an oppressive Jewish ghetto to establish the most powerful bank the world has seen and ushered in an time of global financing.
- Cyrus Field, who became the daddy of global communications by leading the effort to build the transatlantic telegraph, the forerunner to global radio, TV, and the worldwide Internet.
- Margaret Thatcher, whose questionable policies opened up the gusher of considerably free market segments that linked economies across edges.
- Andy Grove, a Hungarian refugee from the Nazis who built the business - Intel - that figured out how to make complex computer potato chips over a mass commercial size and laid the building blocks for Silicon Valley's computer trend.
