"A sweeping indictment of Silicon Valley, showing how the West has slid into a culture of complacency, even as we enter a new era of mounting global threats"--
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ISBN:9798217086269
ISBN:9780593798690
ISBN:0593798694
Physical Description:xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm print
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-284) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface -- Part I: The software century -- Lost valley -- Sparks of intelligence -- The winner's fallacy -- End of the atomic age -- Part II: The hollowing out of the American mind -- The abandonment of belief -- Technological agnostics -- A balloon cut loose -- "Flawed systems" -- Lost in Toyland -- Part III: The engineering mindset -- The Eck swarm -- the improvisational startup -- The disapproval of the crowd -- Building a better rifle -- A cloud or a clock -- Part IV: Rebuilding the technological republic -- Into the desert -- Piety and its price -- The next thousand years -- An aesthetic point of view.
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