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Valley of genius the uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders, and freaks who made it boom

A candid and comprehensive oral history of Silicon Valley's secrets traces the disruptions and start-ups that impacted its economy from the origins of Apple and Atari through the present-day clashes of Google and Facebook.

Main Author: Fisher, Adam (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Twelve, 2018.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Computer industry > California > Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
Businesspeople > California > Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) > Interviews.
High technology industries > California > Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
Technological innovations > California > Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) > Economic conditions.
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface. Silicon Valley, explained: the story of the past, as retold by the people of the future
  • Book one. Among the computer bums
  • The big bang: everything starts with Doug Engelbart
  • Ready Player One: the first t-shirt tycoon
  • The time machine: inventing the future at Xerox PARC
  • Breakout: Jobs and Woz change the game
  • Towel designers: Atari's high-strung prima donnas
  • PARC opens the kimono: good artists copy, great artists steal
  • 3P1C F41L: it's game over for Atari
  • Hello, I'm Macintosh: it sure is great to get out of that bag
  • Fumbling the future: who blew it: Xerox PARC
  • or Steve Jobs?
  • Book two. The hacker ethic
  • What information wants: heroes of the computer revolution
  • The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link: welcome to the restaurant at the end of the universe
  • Reality check: the new new thing
  • that wasn't
  • From insanely great to greatly insane: General Magic mentors a generation
  • The Bengali typhoon: Wired's revolution of the month
  • Toy stories: from PARC to Pixar
  • Jerry Garcia's last words: Netscape opened what?
  • A fish, a barrel, and a gun: Suck perfects the art of snark
  • Culture hacking: the cyberunderground goes mainstream
  • Book three. Network effects
  • The check is in the mail: eBay's trillion-dollar garage sale
  • The shape of the internet: a problem of great googolplexity
  • Free as in beer: two teenagers crash the music industry
  • The dot bomb: only the cockroaches survive...and you're one of the cockroaches
  • The return of the king: iCame, iSaw, iConquered
  • I'm feeling lucky: Google cracks the code
  • I'm CEO...bitch: Zuck moves to Silicon Valley to "dominate" (and does)
  • Purple people eater: Apple, the company that cannibalizes itself
  • Twttr: nose-ring-wearing, tattooed, neck-bearded, long-haired punk hippie misfits
  • To infinity...and beyond!: Steve Jobs in memoriam
  • Epilogue. The endless frontier: the future history of Silicon Valley.

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