Chapter 11Catherine Gasich, Orchardist
How did the Santa Clara Valley ever become the Silicon Valley? How is one to account for all those miles of industrial parks sitting now where a few decades ago there were only prune orchards? What, in fact, was it like here not so long ago?
A number of factors—historical, academic, technical, financial, and psychological—were crucial to this valley’s metamorphosis. The story of that transformation is, in microcosm, the story of the genesis of the age of information processing.
In considering this location’s transformation from saintly to sandy, it’s worth pointing out that all the current dazzle—the successes of the Apples and the Seagates, the Hewlett-Packards and Intels—is a late-coming development. ...
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