[ FreeCourseWeb ] Seeing Silicon Valley - Life inside a Fraying America

Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America

English | ISBN: 022678648X | 112 pages | EPUB | July 6, 2021 | 82 Mb

Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world.

It’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by race, class, and nationality in complex and contradictory ways. Its beautiful landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind by decades of technological innovation, and while its billionaires live in compounds, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences, its service workers live in their cars.

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