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The code : Silicon Valley and the remaking of America by Margaret Pugh O'Mara, 1970- is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The code : Silicon Valley and the remaking of America about?
The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw first-hand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government, and always had been, and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley's success actually was. Now, after almost five years of pioneering research, O'Mara has produced the definitive history of Silicon Valley for our time, the story of mavericks and visionaries, but also of powerful institutions creating the framework for innovation, from the Pentagon to Stanford University. It is also a story of a community that started off remarkably homogeneous and elitist and stayed that way, and whose belief in its own mythology has deepened into a collective hubris that has led to astonishing triumphs as well as devastating second-order effects. Deploying a wonderfully rich and diverse cast of protagonists, from the justly famous to the unjustly obscure, a
Who reads The code : Silicon Valley and the remaking of America?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Margaret Pugh O'Mara, 1970-
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780399562198
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Economics, Finance, Business
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (255 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14