IT IS JANUARY 1995, the month of Microserf Daniel’s final dispatches from Silicon Valley. The prospects for Oop!, our geek heroes’ software business, are looking up. “Oop!, I might add, is going to be a hit,” Daniel tells us. Skip forward thirteen years—how would you rate the chances today of a group of low-level dissident Microsoft coders attracting investment for Digital Lego? About as good as finding the Justice Department on Bill Gates’s Christmas card list. With Michael’s Oop! odyssey, Douglas Coupland captured the early nineties wave of geeky prospectors that made its way out to the West
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