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Seeing Silicon Valley - Life Inside a Fraying America (Paperback)
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Seeing Silicon Valley - Life Inside a Fraying America (Paperback)
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It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology
today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with
the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this
image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by race, class,
and nationality in complex and contradictory ways. Its beautiful
landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind
by decades of technological innovation, and while its billionaires
live in compounds, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences,
its service workers live in their cars. With arresting photography
and intimate stories, Seeing Silicon Valley makes this hidden world
visible. Instead of young entrepreneurs striving for efficiency in
minimalist corporate campuses, we see portraits of
struggle-families displaced by an impossible real estate market,
workers striving for a living wage, and communities harmed by
environmental degradation. If the fate of Silicon Valley is the
fate of America-as so many of its boosters claim-then this book
gives us an unvarnished look into the future.
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