Microcosm

In this his book, George Gilder, graphically describes the dissimilar assortment of people to whom we are indebted for today's computer. Some quotes: "From immigrants and outcasts, street toughs and science wonks, the bearded and the beer bellied, the tacky and the uptight, the midnight modem and pizza breakfasts, the pony tailed and the punk, from fanaticism and desperation, from ambition and hunger, fron genius and sweat of the outsider, from Britain, Israel, Malaya, Iowa, Havana, Brooklyn, Boise, Belgrade, and Vienna, --- come most of the progress in Silicon Valley." With all their differences in life style, they had one common denominator - a dedication to the practical potential of the microcosm - a dedication that demands no class conscienceness. This is the fascinating story of California's Silicon Valley.