http://library.stanford.edu/mac/primary/docs/satori/
its quite insightful if i remember correctly and probably reinforces much of markoff's history.
i'm sure his book is some sort of morality tale, that's how you sell books in this country, so i can understand why you want to react against it, but i thinking you'd be missing something to just dismiss it. The potential for social change is bound up with a culture's fantasies of liberation, that's one reason to pay attention.
-- adam
On 4/23/05, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Thomas Seay
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> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:09 PM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Yahoo! News Story - 'Dormouse' Retells Silicon
> ValleyHistory
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> > Thomas Seay (entheogens at yahoo.com) has sent you a news article.
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> > 'Dormouse' Retells Silicon Valley History
> > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20050420/tc_zd/150388
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> > Yahoo! News http://dailynews.yahoo.com/
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> It would be nostalgic if true.
>
> Sorry Thomas... I think the author is hallucinating a different Silicon
> Valley than I lived around for the last 30 years. I wouldn't even know
> where to start except to say that his assertion that the "geeks"
> generally had normal social skills, and were antiwar politically active
> are both revisionist fabrications.
>
> And lets not EVEN get into the sociology and ecology of having a cowtown
> like San Jose and evirons become a major international city within a 50
> year time frame. Anyone my age who grew up there watched their community
> crumble as the city grew with total sprawling abandon, to provide for an
> industry that only supported the native citizens begrudgingly, and secondarily.
>
> Since it was pointed out that he lived in the valley for most of his
> life, I'd like to point out that most of the people that built the
> computer industry here weren't from the valley.... and most weren't
> even from California. They were almost exclusively male, and almost
> without exception... from ....1976 --> it was about the money, not
> the machines, and the end result was the dotcom bubble, which was
> really a "salescom" bubble.
>
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