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Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year In Silicon Valley
by Christine A. Finn (Author),
The MIT Press (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
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
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780262062244
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher The MIT Press
Publishing Date 2001-10-12
Product Edition First Edition
Total Pages 288