Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

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Palo Alto není oslavou Silicon Valley, ale ambiciózními dějinami místa, odkud se do světa rozšířily technologie, kapitál i mocenské představy. Malcolm Harris propojuje železnici, eugeniku, Stanfordovu univerzitu, vojenský výzkum a digitální ekonomiku. Knihu zařazujeme jako kritický protějšek k příběhům o technologickém pokroku bez společenských nákladů.

O KNIZE:

Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE • THE NEW REPUBLIC • DAZED • WIRED • BLOOMBERG • ESQUIRE • SALON • THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB

The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth).

Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably world-changing. Palo Alto 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.

O AUTOROVI

Malcolm Harris je americký spisovatel a autor knih Palo Alto, Kids These Days a Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit. Narodil se v kalifornském Santa Cruz a vystudoval University of Maryland. Kniha Palo Alto se dostala do finále Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Vydání z roku: 2023