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The Code - Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Paperback)
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The Code - Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Paperback)
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Loot Price R487
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One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley! The true,
behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley
and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became
one of our most consequential historians of the American-led
digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton
and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There
she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with
the federal government--and always had been--and how shallow the
common understanding of the secrets of the Valley's success
actually was. Now, after almost five years of pioneering research,
O'Mara has produced the definitive history of Silicon Valley for
our time, the story of mavericks and visionaries, but also of
powerful institutions creating the framework for innovation, from
the Pentagon to Stanford University. It is also a story of a
community that started off remarkably homogeneous and tight-knit
and stayed that way, and whose belief in its own mythology has
deepened into a collective hubris that has led to astonishing
triumphs as well as devastating second-order effects. Deploying a
wonderfully rich and diverse cast of protagonists, from the justly
famous to the unjustly obscure, across four generations of
explosive growth in the Valley, from the forties to the present,
O'Mara has wrestled one of the most fateful developments in modern
American history into magnificent narrative form. She is on the
ground with all of the key tech companies, chronicling the
evolution in their offerings through each successive era, and she
has a profound fingertip feel for the politics of the sector and
its relation to the larger cultural narrative about tech as it has
evolved over the years. Perhaps most impressive, O'Mara has
penetrated the inner kingdom of tech venture capital firms, the
insular and still remarkably old-boy world that became the cockpit
of American capitalism and the crucible for bringing technological
innovation to market, or not. The transformation of big tech into
the engine room of the American economy and the nexus of so many of
our hopes and dreams--and, increasingly, our nightmares--can be
understood, in Margaret O'Mara's masterful hands, as the story of
one California valley. As her majestic history makes clear, its
fate is the fate of us all.
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