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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America by Margaret O'Mara (English
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- ISBN
- 9780399562181
- Book Title
- Code : Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Economic History, General, Economic Conditions, History
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 28.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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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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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0399562184
ISBN-13
9780399562181
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Code : Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Economic History, General, Economic Conditions, History
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
28.7 Oz
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Trade
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Hc107.C22s33973 2019
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"Puts a gloriously human face on the history of computing in the U.S. . . . extraordinarily comprehensive . . . a must-read for anyone interested in how a one-horse town birthed a revolution that has shifted the course of modern civilization." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review " The Code unlocks the secrets of Silicon Valley's success, but it does much more. With the deftness of a novelist and the care of a scholar, Margaret O'Mara guides readers on an exciting journey - from the pioneers who birthed Silicon Valley, to often overlooked government dollars that served as its spur, to portraits of both famed individuals like Jobs and Gates and of those who deserve to be famous, to an industry that both inspires and horrifies. This is a vital, important book." - Ken Auletta, author of Googled and Frenemies "Silicon Valley's long and complicated relationship with the US government has gone largely unchronicled. Until now - in The Code Margaret O'Mara opens a significant new window into that history. She has captured a portrait of an industry that has until now largely operated outside of the public eye. The Code reveals that Valley is both more of a creature of its partnership with government and an increasingly powerful influence upon it. The Code is an important addition to the literature that seeks to understand Silicon Valley and its impact on the entire world." - John Markoff "A definitive chronicle of how one small group of people, in one particular place, changed everything for the rest of us. Margaret O'Mara tells the story with just the right level of detail, allowing you to form your own opinion as to whether the fire was an accident or deliberately set." - George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral, "In a field crowded with accounts of how the tech industry has developed, this work places the story of our techno-human transformation within a thoughtful Darwinian context. A necessary addition to both public and academic library collections, it will become a reference for how technology has influenced America."-- Library Journal "Entertaining and nuanced history . . . Concerned technology users--which pretty much sums up all of us--will find much of interest here." - Booklist, starred review "[I]lluminating history . . . A well-researched book students of technological history and the emergence of the digital economy will want to know."-- Kirkus Reviews "Puts a gloriously human face on the history of computing in the U.S. . . . extraordinarily comprehensive . . . a must-read for anyone interested in how a one-horse town birthed a revolution that has shifted the course of modern civilization." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review " The Code unlocks the secrets of Silicon Valley's success, but it does much more. With the deftness of a novelist and the care of a scholar, Margaret O'Mara guides readers on an exciting journey - from the pioneers who birthed Silicon Valley, to often overlooked government dollars that served as its spur, to portraits of both famed individuals like Jobs and Gates and of those who deserve to be famous, to an industry that both inspires and horrifies. This is a vital, important book." - Ken Auletta, author of Googled and Frenemies "Silicon Valley's long and complicated relationship with the US government has gone largely unchronicled. Until now - in The Code Margaret O'Mara opens a significant new window into that history. She has captured a portrait of an industry that has until now largely operated outside of the public eye. The Code reveals that Valley is both more of a creature of its partnership with government and an increasingly powerful influence upon it. The Code is an important addition to the literature that seeks to understand Silicon Valley and its impact on the entire world." - John Markoff "A definitive chronicle of how one small group of people, in one particular place, changed everything for the rest of us. Margaret O'Mara tells the story with just the right level of detail, allowing you to form your own opinion as to whether the fire was an accident or deliberately set." - George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2019-003295
Dewey Decimal
338.470040979473
Dewey Edition
23
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