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PALO ALTO - MALCOLM HARRIS KARTONIERT (TB)

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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