Adam Fisher grew up in Silicon Valley playing Atari, programming computers, and reading science fiction. He now lives on an island in the San Francisco Bay and writes overlooking the water for Wired, MIT Technology Review, and The New York Times Magazine. This is his first book.
"A fantastic read! Adam Fisher's history of Silicon Valley is
compelling and thorough, full of fascinating and inspiring stories
carefully curated by someone who truly knows his stuff. Should be
on every entrepreneur's desk!"--Ben Mezrich, New York Times
bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires
"A lively oral history...Fisher captures the cultural lore of
Silicon Valley in the voices of its more prominent
players."--Publishers Weekly
"Adam Fisher has given us an animated, incisive account of Silicon
Valley history, with all of its iconic heroes and villains, told in
a symphony of testimonials from the very people who had a seat at
the revolution."--Brad Stone, bestselling author of The Everything
Store and The Upstarts
"Based on more than 200 interviews and bristling with facts,
personalities, and gossip, [Fisher's] inside account brings to life
the 'future obsessed and forward thinking' culture that gave life
to our current digitized world...An immensely readable account of
America's wild cauldron of innovation."--Kirkus (starred
review)
"If you want to hear how technology changed the world, why not hear
it from those who did the changing? VALLEY OF GENIUS captures the
voices of a revolution as they tell the biggest story of our
time."--Steven Levy, author of Hackers
"In VALLEY OF GENIUS, Adam Fisher tells the Valley's autobiography
quote by quote from a remarkably complete cast of characters. The
resulting tale is a thoroughly engaging ride though recent history
as told by the technologists, investors, and hangers-on who have
made the Valley the world's magnet for technology
innovation."--John Markoff, author of Machines of Loving Grace
"Much of the modern world was invented before the public noticed
what was happening in the emerging Internet. Idealists and
innovators worked together to invent the future that we live in
now. VALLEY OF GENIUS is their story, told well, and I really
enjoyed it."--Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist
"The beauty of oral histories is that enough time has passed for
people to say what really happened. And what really happened
is one of the great stories of our day. Gripping."--Chris Anderson,
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Long Tail and Makers:
The New Industrial Revolution
"The stories Adam Fisher weaves together in VALLEY OF GENIUS alone
make the book a fascinating read: tales of heroic innovation, risk
and reward, boom and bust cycles. But Fisher achieves something
even more important with this 'autobiography' of Silicon Valley: an
understanding of how momentous technological changes in society
come about, and how they can sometimes surprise even their creators
with their broader impact."--Steven Johnson, bestselling author of
How We Got to Now
"This is the most important book on Silicon Valley I've read in two
decades. It will take us all back to our roots in the
counterculture, and will remind us of the true nature of the
innovation process, before we tried to tame it with slogans and
buzzwords."--Po Bronson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
The Nudist on the Late Shift and Nurtureshock
"VALLEY OF GENIUS is a blast-it's like eavesdropping on a huge
party of all the hackers, thinkers and creators that built our
digital world. Every page has some crazy detail I never knew
before; I couldn't put it down."--Clive Thompson, author of Smarter
Than You Think
"VALLEY OF GENIUS is its own kind of genius. Original in its
construction, prodigious, funny, raw and polished, it is an amazing
work of reporting from a skilled writer with an insider's love of
Silicon Valley. You feel like you are in the room with some of the
greatest entrepreneurial minds-men and women-of our time, listening
to history in the making."--Julian Guthrie, New York Times
bestselling author of How to Make a Spaceship
"VALLEY OF GENIUS is the creation story of our digital universe
straight from the sweaty, brilliant (and often surprisingly funny)
gods themselves. A fast, fun, and important prose poem that runs
Atari to Zuckerberg. This is like an oral history of rock n' roll,
if only rock n' roll was half as creative, smart, dirty, or
new."--Charles Graeber, New York Times bestselling author of The
Good Nurse
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