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Overview"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 Valley may be driven by technology, but it also encompasses architecture, transportation, food, clothing, entertainment, intercultural exchanges, and rituals. Combining a reporter's instinct for a good interview with traditional archaeological training, Christine Finn brings the perspectives of the past and the future to the story of Silicon Valley's present material culture. She traveled the area in 2000, a period when people's fortunes could change overnight. She describes a computer's rapid trajectory from useful tool to machine to be junked to collector's item. She explores the sense that whatever one has is instantly superseded by the next new thing-and the effect this has on economic and social values. She tells stories from a place where fruit-pickers now recycle silicon chips 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, are visible in the cultural landscape of the 15 cities that make up the area called ""Silicon Valley.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christine A. FinnPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9780262561549ISBN 10: 0262561549 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 23 August 2002 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThis book is a small delight! I can highly recommend Artifacts as a light, yet fascinating, read. -- Michael R. Williams, Isis An eye-popping survey of the northern California landscape and (perhaps) its future. -- Kirkus Reviews ... fresh insights. That is what Christine Finn delivers. -- Jan English-Luek, Wired Author InformationChristine A. Finn is a journalist and a Research Associate in the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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