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- catalog abstract "Annotation Silicon Valley, a small place with few identifiable geologic or geographic features,has achieved a mythical reputation in a very short time. The modern material culture of the Valleymay be driven by technology, but it also encompasses architecture, transportation, food, clothing,entertainment, intercultural exchanges, and rituals.Combining a reporter's instinct for a goodinterview with traditional archaeological training, Christine Finn brings the perspectives of thepast and the future to the story of Silicon Valley's present material culture. She traveled the areain 2000, a period when people's fortunes could change overnight. She describes a computer's rapidtrajectory from useful tool to machine to be junked to collector's item. She explores the sense thatwhatever one has is instantly superseded by the next new thing -- and the effect this has oneconomic and social values. She tells stories from a place where fruit-pickers now recycle siliconchips and where more money can be made babysitting for post-IPO couples than working in a factory.The ways that people are working and adapting, are becoming wealthy or barely getting by, arevisible in the cultural landscape of the fifteen cities that make up the area called "SiliconValley."".
- catalog contributor b12305923.
- catalog coverage "Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) Civilization 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Annotation Silicon Valley, a small place with few identifiable geologic or geographic features,has achieved a mythical reputation in a very short time. The modern material culture of the Valleymay be driven by technology, but it also encompasses architecture, transportation, food, clothing,entertainment, intercultural exchanges, and rituals.Combining a reporter's instinct for a goodinterview with traditional archaeological training, Christine Finn brings the perspectives of thepast and the future to the story of Silicon Valley's present material culture. She traveled the areain 2000, a period when people's fortunes could change overnight. She describes a computer's rapidtrajectory from useful tool to machine to be junked to collector's item. She explores the sense thatwhatever one has is instantly superseded by the next new thing -- and the effect this has oneconomic and social values. She tells stories from a place where fruit-pickers now recycle siliconchips and where more money can be made babysitting for post-IPO couples than working in a factory.The ways that people are working and adapting, are becoming wealthy or barely getting by, arevisible in the cultural landscape of the fifteen cities that make up the area called "SiliconValley."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.".
- catalog extent "xlix, 244 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262062240 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog spatial "California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)".
- catalog spatial "Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) Civilization 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog subject "979.4/73 21".
- catalog subject "Archaeologists California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) Biography.".
- catalog subject "Computers Social aspects California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)".
- catalog subject "F868.S25 F56 2001".
- catalog subject "Finn, Christine Travel California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)".
- catalog subject "Material culture California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)".
- catalog subject "Technological innovations Social aspects California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)".
- catalog subject "Technology and civilization.".
- catalog title "Artifacts : an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley / Christine Finn.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".