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<p><i>"Hi, it's Jeff." Silence. "Your grandson," I added.<br> "Oh. Yes. Jeff. How are you?"<br> I told him I'd like to stop by and introduce him to my wife.<br> "Great," he said, sounding genuinely surprised. "Why don't you come by and pet the robots?"</i></p> <p>In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Then one day his mother announced that she and his father were divorcing after twenty years of marriage. Big deal, thought Jeff. "Everybody we knew was splitting up-it was the romantic equivalent of the pet-rock craze." Over the next decade, Silicon Valley boomed, and the Goodell family unraveled. <i>Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family</i> is the story of a fragile, all-too-ordinary family caught at the epicenter of one of the great economic, cultural, and technological explosions in recent history.</p> <p>After the divorce, Goodell's mother went to work for a little company called Apple Computer and began her ascent into the new world; his father, a landscape contractor who valued plants and trees over bits and bytes, found himself

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Author

JEFF GOODELL

Publisher

VILLARD

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679456988

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.2 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14