“Mr. Tambourine Man” (song), 417
Mitchell, George, 438, 442
Mitchell, Joni, 414
Mitterrand, Danielle, 184
Mitterrand, Francois, 184, 185
Miyake, Issey, 128, 256, 362, 532
MobileMe, 531–33
Mok, Clement, 183
Monkees, 413
Moore, Fred, 59–60, 61
Moore, Gordon, 9–10
Moore, Henry, 151
Moore’s Law, 10
Morgan Stanley, 104
Morita, Akio, 361
Moritz, Michael, 90, 106–7, 139, 140
Morris, Doug, 399–401, 403, 479
Morrison, Van, 411
Mossberg, Walt, 379, 463, 491, 503, 531
MOS Technologies, 60
“Mother” (song), 51
Mother of All Demos, 58
Motorola, 335, 446–47, 465–66
6800 microprocessor of, 60
6809 microprocessor of, 109–10
68000 microprocessor of, 110
Motorola Starmax, 447
Motown, 399
MP3 (music format), 383, 385–87
MTV, 166
Muller, Marcel, 38
Mumford, Lewis, 57
Murdoch, James, 504, 508
Murdoch, Rupert, 504, 507–9
Murray, Joyce, 206
Murray, Mike, xv, 139, 152, 195–96, 197, 200, 203–4, 206
Muse (band), 498
Museum of Modern Art (New York), 445
music industry, 394–95, 398, 399–400, 503
MusicMatch, 406
MusicNet, 395, 403, 404
Napster, 382, 394, 402
Narcissistic Personality Disorder, 265–66
NASDAQ, 379
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 8–9
National Medal of Technology, 192–93
National Press Club, 228
National Security Agency, 241
National Semiconductor, 75, 79, 296, 297
NBC, 400
Negroponte, Nicholas, 185
Nepal, 106
netbook concept, 494
Netflix, 545
Netscape, 291
Neville Brothers, 410
Newman, Randy, 288, 432
News Corp., 507–8
newser.com, 523
Newton (Apple), 308–9, 338, 385
Newton, Isaac, 69
NeXT, xviii, 166, 245, 246, 259, 268, 297, 363, 374, 445, 447, 458
Apple and, 213–15, 217–18, 221–22, 298–300, 305–6
Apple’s staff “raid” on, 213–15
bundled features of, 224–25, 234
circuit board of, 222, 233–34
design of, 222–23
electronic book of, 234–35
failure of, 293–94
finances of, 226–28
Gates and, 229–30, 236–37
headquarters of, 223–24
IBM and, 231–32
idea behind, 211–12, 214
late release of, 234–36
launch of, 232–35
Lewin and, 212–13, 224
licensing issue and, 231–32
logo of, 219–21
matte finish of, 223
Microsoft and, 236–37
name of, 219
NextStep system of, 231–32, 294
operating system of, 366
optical disk of, 234–35
Perot and, 227–28
price of, 235
reaction to, 236