http://laughingsquid.disqus.com/a resource for art, culture and technologyenSun, 20 Jan 2008 14:56:53 -0000http://laughingsquid.com/the-history-of-silicon-valley/#comment-1809509<p>quote "just looking at this image of all black-tied white males in a swamp of Cold War-groomed agendas and financing"… sorry m.peggy My Uncle Ralph Vaerst is Indonesian</p>pau ebien-pesaSun, 20 Jan 2008 14:56:53 -0000http://laughingsquid.com/the-history-of-silicon-valley/#comment-1809508<p>"great" series ??? ... in the Sf chronicle???!! ...from businees section writers??!</p><p>Not sure Tom Abate could write himself out of wet paper bag even if his Silicon Valley and various business world handlers gave him a GPS-equipped chainsaw...</p><p>Can anyone recommend any serious examination of the history of Silicon Vultures??</p><p> just looking at this image of all black-tied white males in a swamp of Cold War-groomed agendas and financing... surely there's a juicy underbelly to understand the corporate and military pathways of digital culture and its social surrogate and hyper-consumer architecture.</p><p>Has anyone here seen Spectres of the Spectrum from Craig Baldwin? Genius inventors like Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television was left penniless because of the transistor-era media cartels... those roots of SV that Leslie Berlin describes as:</p><p> "Fairchild Semiconductor's eight founders imbued the company with a corporate culture that today might be called "quintessential Silicon Valley": open communications, laissez-faire management styles, flat organizational structures and autonomous research groups.</p><p>Hahaha!</p><p>SV operates like the SF gold rush on corporate crack ( i.e. defense contracts), and the only SV CEO who came out of his Aspen bunker for 2 minutes to see what impact the tech sector was having on life on the planet was Bill Joy, and then he went back into his hole, apparently to check on his stock options.</p>m.peggyMon, 01 Oct 2007 18:11:42 -0000