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Thomas Mahon Author of CHARGED BODIES - Turning Farmland into Silicon Valley Gold
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Thomas Mahon has a unique perspective on Silicon Valley. He was an insider when Wang was the rage and Apple was still a seedling.
His book, CHARGED BODIES, originally published in 1985, is an insider's perspective of the semiconductor industry. Mahon interviewed 25 people whose goal was "to create technology and tools in service to humanity." In the Afterward to the 2024 edition, Mahon questions whether those goals were accomplished.
The book explores what it took to turn rich farmland into a wealthy center of high-tech. He takes us into a world before personal computers, the Internet, or social media. He takes us into the emerging world of new technologies as seen by those inventors, bankers, artists, hackers, detectives, journalists, lawyers, scientists, and philosophers who helped shaped the Silicon Valley of today.
Whatever one's view of A.I., Social Media, the Internet, and all, this book is a reboot to our thinking of technology. Has it been a service to humanity or has it become the Master of humanity? Mahon now urges us all to "to rise up and rethink technology."
CHARGED BODIES, by Thomas Mahon, the 2024 edition is published by Pragmatic Stories. The book is available online.
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