As a very long-time reader of Cringely[1], he's been both spectacularly right and wrong in his predictions and his inside information. However, even when he's b

As a very long-time reader of Cringely[1], he's been both spectacularly right and wrong in his predictions and his inside information. However, even when he's been wrong, he's given me a completely different perspective on products or companies or technology that I hadn't thought of. Having read his many articles about IBM, he's very nostalgic about a "great" company that's failing. I think the book is passion project for him because he likes IBM (or liked the old IBM). [1] I mean this Cringely, the famous Cringely, in case you're not aware that this is a pen name and that there have been a string of mediocre writers using the same pen name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely