Sillicon Valley was not a single thing. I started working in the valley in 1983, and I'm still there.
I saw the foundation of computer technology and applications being created, one day at a time, by mathematicians, philosophers, egyptologists, physicists, musicians, classical scholars, etc. Computer science degrees were few and far between. This is something I'll never forget -- the cross-pollination, the mutual respect, and the creativity of people who mostly liked the work they were doing and who didn't know from one day to another, what would work, or what they might need to come up with next. Yes of course there scams and the MBA's took over everything. But for a while, it was kinda fun. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- the problem with Graeber is not his factual grasp of Silicon Valley history it is his absurd fantasy about that history. Of course the question for deLong is his absurd fantasy about Obama - does he think Graeber is more dangerous or less dangerous than a President willing to shred the federal securities laws (as in the new JOBS Act) to dial for dollars among the Valley elite? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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