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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612914 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Author: Malcolm Harris
Narrator: Patrick Harrison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 28 hours 20 minutes
Release date: February 14, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
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.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612914 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Author: Malcolm Harris
Narrator: Patrick Harrison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 28 hours 20 minutes
Release date: February 14, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
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.