Palo Alto : a history of California, capitalism, and the world
Harris, Malcolm2023
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The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley, whose products are changing how we do everything from driving around to eating food. In 'Palo Alto', a global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing the ideologies, technologies, and policies that have been engineered there over the course of 150 years of Anglo settler colonialism, from IQ tests to the 'tragedy of the commons,' racial genetics, and 'broken windows' theory.
Main title:
Palo Alto : a history of California, capitalism, and the world / Malcom Harris.
Author:
Harris, Malcolm, author
Imprint:
London : riverrun, 2023.
Collation:
viii, 708 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529430875 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
979.473977.715979.473 HARR977.7155
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2358177
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