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Palo Alto

- A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Af: Malcolm Harris Engelsk Paperback

Palo Alto

- A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Af: Malcolm Harris Engelsk Paperback
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''Revelatory and illuminating'' New Yorker

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. It 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.

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''Revelatory and illuminating'' New Yorker

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. It 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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 832
ISBN-13: 9781529430912
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1529430917
Kategori: Industrialisering og industrihistorie
Udg. Dato: 19 mar 2024
Længde: 56mm
Bredde: 201mm
Højde: 133mm
Forlag: Quercus Publishing
Oplagsdato: 19 mar 2024
Forfatter(e): Malcolm Harris
Forfatter(e) Malcolm Harris

Kategori Industrialisering og industrihistorie

ISBN-13 9781529430912

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 832

Udgave

Længde 56mm

Bredde 201mm

Højde 133mm

Udg. Dato 19 mar 2024

Oplagsdato 19 mar 2024

Forlag Quercus Publishing