084 - Silicon Valley: from "a Bicycle for the Mind to Opiate for the Masses with Adam Fisher
In this episode, we are joined by writer and speaker, Adam Fisher, to discuss his latest book, Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom). Adam has previously worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of prestigious publications and as Features Editor of New York Magazine and Wired Magazine.
- The Silicon Valley of today, and why Adam believes the industry is now a game between the old and the young
- The origins of gaming, and the declining role played by women over the course of its evolution
- The counterculture of Silicon Valley, and why today\u2019s social media obsessed society has corrupted the science of computing
- Nerd culture: how today\u2019s popular culture has been taken over by the less popular
- Morality: how a social media obsessed world is failing humanity
- Doing: why the future of computing innovation relies on doing and not talking
- Get in touch with Adam via Twitter\xa0or\xa0LinkedIn
- Adam's website
- Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom), a book by Adam Fisher
- The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, a paper by\xa0Sergey Brin and\xa0Lawrence Page
- Kim Stanley Robinson books
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