A history of Silicon Valley in essay form.
9/23/2002
Michael Malone, Silicon Valley resident and its first full-time tech beat writer, has compiled twenty-four of his essays from publications that include Upside, Fast Company, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as excerpts from his 1999 book, Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane. While Malone expresses concern about the totalitarian direction the technology revolution may be taking in his 1998 Upside article, "Technofacism," other parts of the book are more upbeat. Anecdotes illustrate his admiration for this community and how its underdog inhabitants were able to accomplish as much as they did. He describes Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the 1970s as "scruffy longhairs" loitering in the back of a local hobby shop.
— Melissa Clarke