02071cam a2200277 i 4500 386281587 TxAuBib 20190719120000.0 190124s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019003295 9780399562181 30.00 0399562184 30.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda O'Mara, Margaret Pugh, 1970- The Code [BOOK] : Silicon Valley and the remaking of America / Margaret O'Mara. New York : Penguin Press, 2019. 496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Provided by publisher. 20190719. Business enterprises California Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County.) Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif) Economic conditions.