Glenna Matthews. Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. xvii + 313 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4154-9, $55.00 (cloth); 0-8047-4796-2, $22.95 (paper).

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 742-743
Author(s):  
Angel Kwolek-Folland
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Stanford University

Regionalism in Stanford's Contribution to the Rise of Silicon Valley

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen B. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Early Years ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
The West

In this article I explore the powerful sense of regional solidarity that accompanied the rise of Silicon Valley. From the early years of Stanford University, the university's leaders saw its mission as service to the West and shaped the school accordingly. At the same time, the perceived exploitation of the West at the hands of eastern interests fueled booster-like attempts to build self-sufficient indigenous local industry. Thus, regionalism helped align Stanford's interests with those of the area's high-tech firms for the first fifty years of Silicon Valley's development. The distinctive regional ethos of the West during the first half of the twentieth century is an ingredient of Silicon Valley's already prepared environment, an ingredient that would-be replicators ignore at their peril.

Intersection: Reimagining the Future of Mobility Across Traditional Boundaries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisyn Malek
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Interconnected System ◽  
Broad Base ◽  
The Future ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Thought Leaders

Mobility and transportation mean different things to people, even to those who work in various aspects of the ecosystem - from the movement of people or goods to the development of the infrastructure that enables mobility. For decades these different parts of the ecosystem have been approached as entirely independent industries, but the quickened pace of technological change has driven the need to reconsider how these distinct groups create the vibrant tapestry that is our mobility ecosystem. This book seeks to capture the varied perspectives as a collection of diverse views on the future of mobility, to provide a clearer view on the broad base of possibility and opportunity across this interconnected system. Contributors: Jonathon Baugh, Geoffrey Boquot, Reilly Brennan, Tiffany Chu, Jordan Davis, Courtney Erlichman, Elaina Farnsworth, Valerie Lefler, Wolfgang Lehmacher & Mikail Lind, Shoshana Lew, Suzanne Murtha, Mary Nichols, Trevor Pawl, John Perrachio, Aishwarya Raman, Karina Ricks, Alex Roy, Avinash Ruguboor, Anthony Townsend, Marla Westervelt, and Candace Xie. "Amazing roster of thought leaders come together to paint a picture of a whole new mobility paradigm in the interest of safety, sustainability, and equity." -- Sven Beiker, PhD. Managing Director at Silicon Valley Mobility and Lecturer at Stanford University

Silicon San Francisco and the West Bay Wall

2018 ◽  
pp. 150-185
Author(s):  
Alex Schafran
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
The West ◽  
The People ◽  
New Residents

Silicon Valley as we know it emerged in part from encounters between the technology of the valley and the Bohemian culture of San Francisco. This San Francisco–Silicon Valley nexus would produce one of the most dynamic economic growth stories any region has ever seen. Over the course of the latter part of the twentieth century, this encounter eventually turned both San Francisco and Silicon Valley into massive jobs engines. This chapter examines the spaces where this engine was most powerful, the places that drove the economic cart which attracted so many new residents and so much investment. These are also the places that largely did either very little or not enough to house the people who held these jobs. They did even less for those who had suffered under the segregated conditions of the earlier era.

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