The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an "extraordinary"* story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative. (*Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth)
Palo Alto's weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably world-changing. Palo Alto is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system.
In PALO ALTO, the first comprehensive, 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. The Internet and computers, too. It's a story about how a small American suburb became a powerful engine for economic growth and war, and how it came to lead the world into a surprisingly disastrous 21st century. PALO ALTO is an urgent and visionary history of the way we live now, one that ends with a clear-eyed, radical proposition for how we might begin to change course.
0 有用 yuyiivy 2024-01-22 12:39:28 湖南
无法破局,forces
0 有用 RoutineCat 2024-02-12 16:05:38 福建
等于一部Palo Alto的编年史,重新认识美国那段淘金热的年代。贯穿全书的一个核心就是以capital,以及种族歧视/唯白论的角度来讲述斯坦福的发家史、斯坦福大学的建立,它的教学宗旨,硅谷的发展,科技创新带来的capital影响。同时也是可以一窥美国政党保守派和民主派的核心价值观水火不容。在追求资本利益的前提下,甚至连表面功夫的民主自由都难以实现。
2 有用 ay 2023-07-17 21:01:06 上海
Quite a different approach and give us the unfamiliar side of Palo Alto/Silicon Valley/California. But be aware of the author from the left liberal.
0 有用 RoutineCat 2024-02-12 16:05:38 福建
等于一部Palo Alto的编年史,重新认识美国那段淘金热的年代。贯穿全书的一个核心就是以capital,以及种族歧视/唯白论的角度来讲述斯坦福的发家史、斯坦福大学的建立,它的教学宗旨,硅谷的发展,科技创新带来的capital影响。同时也是可以一窥美国政党保守派和民主派的核心价值观水火不容。在追求资本利益的前提下,甚至连表面功夫的民主自由都难以实现。
0 有用 yuyiivy 2024-01-22 12:39:28 湖南
无法破局,forces
2 有用 ay 2023-07-17 21:01:06 上海
Quite a different approach and give us the unfamiliar side of Palo Alto/Silicon Valley/California. But be aware of the author from the left liberal.