Stephen Witt Knihy

The narrative explores Nvidia's remarkable ascent from a video game component manufacturer to a leader in AI computing hardware, culminating in its status as the third most-valuable company globally by March 2024. Central to this transformation is CEO Jensen Huang, whose bold bet on AI reshaped the tech landscape. The book details Huang's visionary leadership, the evolution of Nvidia's technology, and the innovative engineers behind this revolution. It also contemplates the profound implications of AI advancements for the future, heralding a new industrial era.

Journalist Stephen Witt traces the history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of midtown Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the darkest recesses of the Internet.