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The History of Computing Mistakes
How Failed Inventions Shaped Technology
About this book:
From the humming gears of Babbage’s unfinished Difference Engine to the fiery glitches that grounded the Boeing 737 MAX, *The History of Computing Mistakes* turns every spectacular flop into a riveting lesson in why we innovate the way we do today. Each chapter peels back the myth of inevitable progress, revealing how missed deadlines, misjudged markets, and outright blunders planted the seeds for the computers, satellites, and smartphones we now rely on.
Discover the human drama behind infamous failures—Therac‑25’s deadly code, the Y2K panic that swept the globe, Google Glass’s social misstep, and the meteoric rise and fall of Theranos—while seeing how engineers, entrepreneurs, and regulators learned, adapted, and sometimes stumbled forward. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a budding entrepreneur, or a history buff, this book offers a gripping, eye‑opening tour of the missteps that quietly built our digital world—proving that the best way to predict the future is to study the mistakes of the past.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Difference Engine That Never Was
- Chapter 2: ENIAC's First Bugs and the Birth of Debugging
- Chapter 3: The Xerox PARC Inventions Nobody Used
- Chapter 4: Apple's Newton: A Decade Too Early
- Chapter 5: The Commodore Business Machines Collapse
- Chapter 6: OS/2 vs. Windows: The Platform War Lost
- Chapter 7: Iridium's $5 Billion Satellite Flop
- Chapter 8: Betamax: Superior Technology, Inferior Strategy
- Chapter 9: The Fourth-Generation Nuclear Aircraft Program
- Chapter 10: Google Glass and the Failure of Early Adoption
- Chapter 11: The Therac-25 Radiation Overdose Scandal
- Chapter 12: IBM's PCjr: Underestimating the Market
- Chapter 13: The Marvel of the Memex That Vanished
- Chapter 14: Motorola's StarTAC to Iridium: Rise and Fall
- Chapter 15: The Segway and the Hype That Crashed
- Chapter 16: The Boeing 737 MAX Software Catastrophe
- Chapter 17: The Concorde's Unfulfilled Supersonic Dream
- Chapter 18: Digital Equipment Corporation's Missed PC Revolution
- Chapter 19: The HealthCare.gov Launch Disaster
- Chapter 20: The Florida Recount Machine Failures of 2000
- Chapter 21: Theranos: When Fake Technology Became a Fraud
- Chapter 22: The Y2K Bug: Panic Over a Preventable Error
- Chapter 23: Knight Capital's $440 Million Software Glitch
- Chapter 24: The Mars Climate Orbiter Metric Mix-Up
- Chapter 25: Lessons for Tomorrow's Innovators
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June 30, 2026
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