Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom

New York: Twelve, 2018. First edition, first printing (full number line). xvi, 494 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm About fine (binding slightly rolled), in near faintly edge-soiled jacket jacket, now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781455559022, 9781538714492

A candid and comprehensive oral history of Silicon Valley's secrets traces the disruptions and start-ups that impacted its economy from the origins of Apple and Atari through the present-day clashes of Google and FacebookContents: Preface. Silicon Valley, explained: the story of the past, as retold by the people of the future. Book one: Among the computer bums. The big bang: everything starts with Doug Engelbart; Ready Player One: the first T-shirt tycoon; The time machine: inventing the future at Xerox PARC; Breakout: Jobs and Woz change the game; Towel designers: Atari's high-strung prima donnas; PARC opens the kimono: good artists copy, great artists steal; 3P1C F41L: it's game over for Atari; Hello, I'm Macintosh: it sure is great to get out of that bag; Fumbling the future: who blew it: Xerox PARC. or Steve Jobs?. Book two: The hacker ethic. What information wants: heroes of the computer revolution; The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link: welcome to the restaurant at the end of the universe; Reality check: the new new thing. that wasn't; From insanely great to greatly insane: General Magic mentors a generation; The Bengali typhoon: Wired's revolution of the month; Toy stories: from PARC to Pixar; Jerry Garcia's last words: Netscape opened at what?!; A fish, a barrel, and a gun: Suck perfects the art of snark; Culture hacking: the cyberunderground goes mainstream. Book three: Network effects. The check is in the mail: eBay's trillion-dollar garage sale; The shape of the internet: a problem of great googolplexity; Free as in beer: two teenagers crash the music industry; The dot bomb: only the cockroaches survive ... and you're one of the cockroaches; The return of the king: iCame, iSaw, iConquered; I'm feeling lucky: Google cracks the code; I'm CEO ... bitch: Zuck moves to Silicon Valley to "dominate" (and does); Purple people eater: Apple, the company that cannibalizes itself; Twttr: nose-ring-wearing, tattooed, neck-bearded, long-haired punk hippie misfits; To infinity ... and beyond!: Steve Jobs in memoriam. Epilogue: The endless frontier: the future history of Silicon Valley.