My Daddy Killed the Bookstore. And...
summary
Launched the first online bookstore in 1992 with 1.5 million titles and features like collaborative recommendations, shopping carts, price comparisons and real‑time credit card processing; sales are doubling every quarter by 1994 and the site is sold to CUC in 1996. Today the iPad lands as a Black Swan (projected 100 million devices) and Sideways builds concrete features like buddy reading and multimedia/maps/calendar navigation. Warns of concrete failures: cloud shutdowns (Egypt), EMP/solar‑flare loss, and early digital censorship (1984 removed).
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:18Ariel Booksellers
- 0:48LA Book Show 1994
- 1:03Let's Make a Deal
- 1:36iPad as Black Swan
- 2:07Very Large Space
- 2:18What the Book Knows
- 2:39Buddy Reading
- 3:03Connections
- 3:18Dead Battery
- 3:36Disruption and Responsibility
- 3:48Books in the cloud
- 4:03EMP Pulse
- 4:18Censorship
- 4:34Unanticipated Consequences
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