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_beng
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050 4 _aF868.S25
_bF56 2001eb
100 1 _aFinn, Christine,
_d1959-
_922532
245 1 0 _aArtifacts :
_ban archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley /
_cChristine Finn.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bMIT Press,
_cc2001.
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2002]
300 _a1 PDF (xlix, 246 pages) :
_billustrations, map.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.
506 1 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _aSilicon 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 item. She explores the sense that whatever one has is instantly superseded by the next new thing -- and the effect this has on economic and social values. She tells stories from a place where fruit-pickers now recycle silicon chips and where more money can be made babysitting for post-IPO couples than working in a factory. The ways that people are working and adapting, are becoming wealthy or barely getting by, are visible in the cultural landscape of the fifteen cities that make up the area called "Silicon Valley.".
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
600 1 0 _aFinn, Christine
_xTravel
_zCalifornia
_zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
_922533
650 0 _aArchaeologists
_zCalifornia
_zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
_vBiography.
_922534
650 0 _aTechnology and civilization.
_914414
650 0 _aComputers
_xSocial aspects
_zCalifornia
_zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
_922535
650 0 _aTechnological innovations
_xSocial aspects
_zCalifornia
_zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
_922536
650 0 _aMaterial culture
_zCalifornia
_zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
_922537
650 7 _aHISTORY
_xState & Local
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
_922538
651 0 _aSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
_xSocial life and customs
_y20th century.
_922539
651 0 _aSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
_xDescription and travel.
_922540
651 0 _aSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)
_xCivilization
_y20th century.
_922541
655 0 _aElectronic books.
_93294
710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
_922542
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
_922543
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780262561549
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267390
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999 _c73044
_d73044