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

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

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內容簡介 「這也許是二十年來，我所讀過最棒的矽谷寫實記錄。」─波‧布朗森，暢銷作家矽谷是世界上少見的集合體，它是整個世界的科技重鎮，從Apple公司的發源，到現在Facebook、Google和其他新創公司，都發揮了其重大的影響力。在發展的過程中，矽谷不排斥改變，而是擁抱所有的可能性，不停地改變、進步，才達到目前的影響力，而矽谷的未來會如何呢？在本書中作者解釋，矽谷的未來無法被預測或者計劃，跟所有公司一樣，發展都是「運氣」、「時機」、「野心」的綜合，當然也少不了天才領導們的參與。作者亞當‧費雪在矽谷長大，成長過程中少不了各式科技產品、科幻小說，在這一本書中，他透過超過兩百次的深入訪問，帶著讀者一路從個人電腦、網路的興起、網路世界的全盛期、到現代科技創造的關鍵時刻。透過這本詳細的記錄，對矽谷或者科技產業有興趣的讀者，有機會一窺科技、心壯巨人─矽谷的完整面貌。Rarely has one economy asserted itself as swiftly--and as aggressively--as the entity we now know as Silicon Valley. Built with a seemingly permanent culture of reinvention, Silicon Valley does not fight change; it embraces it, and now powers the American economy and global innovation. So how did this omnipotent and ever-morphing place come to be? It was not by planning. It was, like many an empire before it, part luck, part timing, and part ambition. And part pure, unbridled genius... Drawing on over two hundred in-depth interviews, VALLEY OF GENIUS takes readers from the dawn of the personal computer and the internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented. The book interweaves stories of invention and betrayal, overnight success and underground exploits, to tell the story of Silicon Valley like it has never been told before. These are the stories that Valley insiders tell each other: the tall tales that are all, improbably, true.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Adam Fisher Adam Fisher grew up in Silicon Valley playing Atari, programming computers, and reading science fiction. He now lives on an island in the San Francisco Bay and writes overlooking the water for Wired, MIT Technology Review, and The New York Times Magazine. This is his first book.

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