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Rethinking Silicon Valley: Stewart Brand's Lost Journal

By John Markoff
Communications of the ACM, November 2022, Vol. 65 No. 11, Pages 32-34
10.1145/3530988
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During the fall of 2000 I visited the Special Collection room in Green Library at Stanford University, eager to read Stewart Brand's personal journals. I was researching the political and cultural world surrounding three computer science laboratories that were located adjacent to Stanford during the decade during which the technologies that led to the creation of the personal computer industry and the modern Internet emerged.

On my initial visit I came away disappointed and it would take almost another two decades before I discovered a missing piece of the puzzle that reframes the early history and impact of Silicon Valley.

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