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Everything about Clive Sinclair
English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Clive SinclairA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Jewishness and World History in Clive Sinclair’s Death & TexasInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: BedbugsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Sir Clive Sinclair on the third industrial revolutionCited 1 times
- Go sideways: Sinclair ResearchA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Jim WestwoodA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Sir Clive Sinclair on the third industrial revolution
Sir Clive Sinclair Innovator Extraordinaire
Clive Sinclair: towards the superintelligent machine
Sir Clive Sinclair on AI and Super Intelligence
Forum: Sir Clive Sinclair on Britain in the 1990s
Of Shadow-Play and Promised Lands: Between America and Israel: Interview with Clive Sinclair
🆕 Influential since 2022
đź“š Books worth reading
BedbugsClive Sinclair · 1982
Cosmetic effectsClive Sinclair · 1989
Hearts of goldClive Sinclair · 1979
Blood libelsClive Sinclair · 1985- 📕Death and TexasClive Sinclair · 2014
Meet the wifeClive Sinclair · 2002
The lady with the laptopClive Sinclair · 1996
Augustus RexClive Sinclair · 1992
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
đź”— Related topics
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- Jim Westwood Jim Westwood is the former chief engineer who worked at Sinclair Research Ltd in the 1980s, starting at the company in 1963. Westwood was the technical…
- ZX Spectrum The ZX Spectrum (UK: /zɛd ɛks/) is an 8-bit home computer developed and marketed by Sinclair Research. The Spectrum played a pivotal role in the history…
- Christopher Curry (businessman) Christopher Curry (born 28 January 1946) is a British businessman and the co-founder of Acorn Computers, with Hermann Hauser and Andy Hopper. He became…
- ZX81 The ZX81 is a home computer developed by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Dundee, Scotland, by Timex Corporation. It was launched in the United Kingdom…
- Sinclair Radionics Sinclair Radionics Ltd was a company founded by Sir Clive Sinclair in Cambridge, England which developed hi-fi products, radios, calculators and scientific…
- Micro Men Micro Men is a 2009 one-off BBC drama television programme set in the late 1970s and the early-mid 1980s, about the rise of the British home computer market…
- Grundy NewBrain The Grundy NewBrain was a line of microcomputers launched in 1982 by Grundy Business Systems Ltd of Teddington and Cambridge, England. A contemporary of…