Valley of genius : the uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders, and freaks who made it boom
by Fisher, Adam (Author)
Summary
A candid and comprehensive oral history of Silicon Valley's secrets traces the disruptions and start-ups that impacted its economy from the origins of Apple and Atari through the present-day clashes of Google and Facebook. Full description
- Preface. Silicon Valley, explained: the story of the past, as retold by the people of the future
- Book one. Among the computer bums
- The big bang: everything starts with Doug Engelbart
- Ready Player One: the first t-shirt tycoon
- The time machine: inventing the future at Xerox PARC
- Breakout: Jobs and Woz change the game
- Towel designers: Atari's high-strung prima donnas
- PARC opens the kimono: good artists copy, great artists steal
- 3P1C F41L: it's game over for Atari
- Hello, I'm Macintosh: it sure is great to get out of that bag
- Fumbling the future: who blew it: Xerox PARC
- or Steve Jobs?
- Book two. The hacker ethic
- What information wants: heroes of the computer revolution
- The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link: welcome to the restaurant at the end of the universe
- Reality check: the new new thing
- that wasn't
- From insanely great to greatly insane: General Magic mentors a generation
- The Bengali typhoon: Wired's revolution of the month
- Toy stories: from PARC to Pixar
- Jerry Garcia's last words: Netscape opened what?
- A fish, a barrel, and a gun: Suck perfects the art of snark
- Culture hacking: the cyberunderground goes mainstream
- Book three. Network effects
- The check is in the mail: eBay's trillion-dollar garage sale
- The shape of the internet: a problem of great googolplexity
- Free as in beer: two teenagers crash the music industry
- The dot bomb: only the cockroaches survive...and you're one of the cockroaches
- The return of the king: iCame, iSaw, iConquered
- I'm feeling lucky: Google cracks the code
- I'm CEO...bitch: Zuck moves to Silicon Valley to "dominate" (and does)
- Purple people eater: Apple, the company that cannibalizes itself
- Twttr: nose-ring-wearing, tattooed, neck-bearded, long-haired punk hippie misfits
- To infinity...and beyond!: Steve Jobs in memoriam
- Epilogue. The endless frontier: the future history of Silicon Valley.