It began a few years back when the Valley began to lose its mojo. First of all, let’s get one thing clear, there is no Silicon Valley. It’s a construct invented by creative writers. It was also shown in a James Bond movie as an actual place.
Help some Runaway, Homeless, and kids
that are virtually throwaways.
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Digital Media Festival Official Selection For Documentary Series
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SILICON VALLEY captures the culture, history and spirit of a remarkable innovation powerhouse. Narrated by the legendary Leonard Nimoy, this program takes you through the early years of the founding of Stanford Univ. Hewlett-Packard, Varian, Fairchild, Intel and Apple. Company founders and world-renowned inventors tell the story of risk, failure, vision and luck. Filmed over a twenty year period, some of the familiar stars include Steve Jobs, Bill Hewlett, Steve Wozniak, Dave Packard, Jim Clark, Larry Ellison and Gordon Moore.
the series is available online at:
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Silicon Valley
Founders
Funders
StartUps
Entrepreneurs
Stanford University
Mountain View
PayPal
Youtube
Sand Hill Road
Jerry Garcia
New Riders of
the Purple Sage
John Dawson
Robert Hunter
Warlocks
Ken Kesey
The Trips Festival
Menlo Park
Palo Alto
The Warlocks
The Grateful Dead
Bill Grham
Shorline
The Well
Stewart Brand
Harry Barlo
Woodside
Redwoods
Piero Scaruffi
Merry Pranksters
Rock Skully
Whole Earth
Catalogue
Magoo's
Guitars Unlimited
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PRODUCER
JOHN McLAUGHLIN |
John McLaughlin is Founder and President of Santa Clara Valley Historical Association, he is the co-author, The Making of Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance, Techonology, Entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley: 110 Year Renaissance. John was producer/ director of Silicon Valley: 100 Year Renaissance a PBS documentary, narrated by Walter Cronkite, and producer of the new Silicon Valley narrated by Leonard Nimoy. He is also the author of G.R.A.I.L. "John McLaughlin's book takes it in a direction that goes beyond what Dan Brown laid out in DA VINCI CODE--from the distant past into a possible future," was one of the reviews of the book. He is founder of Scotsport International (an export management co.), publisher of Sportlite Magazine, founder and publisher of Lane County Living Magazine, founder of Cups Coffee Cafe. John received his B.S. in political science from U. of Oregon and MBA from U.S. International University and lives between Silicon Valley and Tucson, Arizona. |
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It's said that Silicon Valley's real strength, lies in its social network. "They have everything. The founders, the investors, the connections to bankers, and big companies that can buy the little ones' and across all different types of tech. That powerful network has been building up since the 1960's... I see it getting stronger and stronger and stronger. I even see my own peers moving to the Valley." Brandon White, founder of TidalFish & Zuess
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
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Fred Turner is a professor at Stanford University and Dir., Undergraduate Studies and Program in Science, Technology and Society, Assoc. Professor of Communication, Assoc. Professor Depart. of Art and History with his teaching focus on digital media, journalism and the roles played by media in American cultural history. Turner is author of two books, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006) and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. His essays have tackled topics ranging from the rise of reality crime television to the role of the Burning Man festival in contemporary new media industries. His research and writing have received a number of awards, including a PSP Award for Excellence, for the best book in Communication and Cultural Studies, Association of Am. Publishers; the Lews Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics, the James Carey Media Research Award and many others found on link to his bio page. He also taught Communications at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT, and worked as a journalist for ten years. |
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"Silicon Valley is the only place that is not trying to be Silicon Valley." Robert Metcalfe
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"Silicon Valley is more of a state of mine than a physical location. It has no large monuments, magnificent buildings or ancient heritage. There are no tours of companies or venture capital firms. From Santa Clara to South San Francisco it's 45 miles of a bedroom community after another. Yet what's been occurring for the last 50 years within this tight cluster of suburban towns is nothing short of an "entrepreneurial explosion" on par with classic Athens, renaissance Florence of 1920's Paris." Steve Blank
In his book What the Doormouse Said: How the Sixties Counter-culture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, John Markoff quotes science fiction writer William Gibson saying, "The future's already arrived; it's just not evenly distributed yet." |
Silicon Valley Renaissance
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Mindset, Failure and Silicon Valley Founders: an interview with Carol S. Dweck |
Interview with Michel L. Hackworth, Co-founder of Cirrus Logic |
Economist Enrico Moretti from UC Berkeley said in reference to Silicon Valley, "The social
multiplier effect - how a phenomeno in a particular area is amplified by the itneractions of
people within a network - is a crucial competitive advantage that innovation clusters have
over other localities...An innovative firm in the Valley grows not just on the expertise of its
own workers, but it grows on the entire ecosystem that surrounds it."
Thompson in his book From Counterculture to Cyberculture connects the dots in Silicon Valley
with Stewart Brand and his Whole Earth Catalog, The Well, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead,
Dead songwriter John Perry Barlow, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters to Hewlett-Packard,
Stanford University, Apple, and
the rise of the Digital Age in Silicon Valley in a masterful book.
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Three Hours of Silicon Stories of Music in the Valley
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Jerry Garcia Band Documentary
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STAY TUNED 4 MUSIC & WINE |
SILICON VALLEY TIMELINE...
1909: Charles Herrold in San Jose starts the first radio station in the USA with regularly scheduled programming
1939: Fred Terman's students William Hewlett and David Packard start a company to produce their
audio-oscillator
1939: Walt Disney becomes the first customer of
Hewlett-Packard, purchasing their oscillator for the animation film
"Fantasia"
1956: Charles Ginsburg of Ampex Corporation builds the first practical videotape recorder
1957: Dean Watkins of Stanford's ERL founds Watkins-Johnson, one of the first venture-capital
funded companies in the Santa Clara Valley
1958: NASA opens a research center near Mountain View.
1961: Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter's first paying gig as a folk duo in the South Bay was in Menlo
Park at Peninsula School.
1961-63: Jerry Garcia, Daivid Nelson,Bob Hunter and others lived in a rambling house near the
Southern end of Santa Cruz Avenue called "The Chateau" in Menlo Park.
1962-65: Tom Wolfe immortalized Ken Kesey's house on Petty Lane in his book The Electric Kool
Aid Acid Test
1962: Michael Murphy founds the "Esalen Institute" at Big
Sur to promote spiritual healing
1963: Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research
Institute builds the first prototype of the "mouse"
and that
year
John McCarthy moves to Stanford
1964: MkUltra's alumnus Ken Kesey organizes the "Merry Pranksters" who travel around the country
in a "Magic Bus", live in a commune in La Honda and experiment with "acid tests" (LSD)
1965: Owsley "Bear" Stanley synthesizes crystalline LSD and George Hunter of the Charlatans
introduces the "light show" in rock concerts.
1966: Steward Brand organizes the "Trips Festival" putting together Ken Kesey's "Acid Test",
Jacopetti's Open Theater, Sender's Tape Music Center and bands including the Grateful Dead and
Hewlett-Packard enters the business of general-purpose computers with the HP-2115
1967 The first "Summer of Love" of the hippies is held in San Francisco, and a three-day "Acid
Test" is held in San Francisco with the Grateful Dead
performing later a
"Human Be-In" is held at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and
Monterey hosts a rock festival
1968: Stewart Brand publishes the first "Whole Earth
Catalog"
1969: Construction begins at 3000 Sand Hill Road, in Menlo Park, soon to become the headquarters
of the venture-capital community and the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) demonstrates Shakey
the Robot
1970: Five of the seven largest USA semiconductor
manufacturers are located in Santa Clara Valley,
Xerox opens the Palo Alto Research Center or PARC,
and Stanford's Ed Feigenbaum launches the
Heuristic Programming Project for research in Artificial Intelligence
1972: Magnavox introduces the first videogame console, the "Odyssey" and Nolan Bushnell invents
the first videogame, "Pong", an evolution of Magnavox's Odyssey, and founds Atari, Venture-capitalist company Kleiner-Perkins, founded by Austrian-born Eugene Kleiner of Fairchild Semiconductor and
former Hewlett-Packard executive Tom Perkins, opens offices in Menlo Park on Sand Hill Rd, followed
by Don Valentine of Fairchild Semiconductor who founds Capital Management Services, later renamed Sequoia Capital, and Electronics writer Don Hoeffler coins the term "Silicon Valley"
1973: Stanley Cohen of Stanford University and Herbert Boyer of UC San Francisco create the first recombinant DNA organism, virtually inventing "biotechnology"
It essentially consists of a large geographical area beginning south of Redwood City and scattering about various industrial parks on both sides of the San Francisco Bay all the way down to Scotts Valley.
Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, San Jose, Milpitas, Fremont, Santa Clara are all cities that are more or less in Silicon Valley.
TO BE CONTINUED...
VALLEY RESEARCH
lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2010/02/grateful-dead-and-menlo-park.html good timeline
netvalley.com/silicon_valley_history.html
scaruffi.com/svhistory/silicon.html good
scaruffi.com/svhistory/index.html
npr.org/2012/03/26/149404846/the-birth-of-silicon-valley
