In another 5 years they'll finally get around to producing a show about Silicon Valley now.
About how the silicon became fabless and offshored. About how Indians took over Koreatown, how all the buildings along the 101 stretch went up then empty.
About how the pioneers settled down while the goldrushers came in wanting a piece in San Francisco even though the 49ers came down to Santa Clara. About how the old campuses went away and got replaced by higher density condos since no one could afford houses.
About how there were the rich and the other half scrambled. About what happens in the middle of the night in those Sunnyvale corporate parks.
About how it's just really bitter and sweet as home.
You've hit a nerve touching on the hidden stories of Silicon Valley which may never get told. (But should.)
It's 10:33pm, and I'm just getting back home in San Francisco after spending the day working in San Jose, driving down 101 in the morning, coding, and then driving back after working out at the immense 24 Hour Super Sport off Zanker Road. It's been 7 years since I've really worked back in the South Bay, now making my living building iOS apps. I first got here in 1997 working on building EDA tools as part of the silicon ecosystem that is mostly gone now, punctuated by the different signs on the same buildings you see driving along 101.
Different signs. It can be overwhelming to think about all the changes in Silicon Valley since the mid-1970's, about all the stories of the different people here who contributed to that change, with Moore's law the only thing keeping and driving us together.
As an example I like to relate, most lay people at best see those past efforts distilled and watered-down in the form of their smartphones today. For those of us who've been at this for a while, we can see the full panoply of life in Silicon Valley embedded in these things.
What makes you think that it's anything interesting? Maybe it's more like a Waiting for Godot deal. The fact that you know there are crickets there would indicate that you are there doing something. :)
The Kauffman Foundation + STL IT Entrepreneurs Network (iten.org) hosted an early screening of this film at Washington University in St. Louis a couple months ago. I was fortunate to see it.
The movie offers an inside look at the earliest days of Si Valley, including the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley to form Fairchild Semiconductor. After that they focus mainly on the 70s-80s with a bunch of great anecdotes about Apple/Steve Jobs and Atari.
That was a really good show! I took a microelectronic fabrication course in school, and the Deal-Grove model [1] was one of the things we studied. Cool to see the people who discovered the reasons for the weird things that happen in microelectronics.
It's amazing how interesting of a story can be told with mainly pictures and old video. No special effects, just the raw meat of the story of the people who made our data world happen.
> [William Shockley's] mother had lived there [Santa Clara Valley] for years - and land prices where cheap.
Just goes to show how random things like these are. A random physicist, comes home, starts a small silicon chip shop, and accidentally helps cause what you see in Silicon Valley today.
The portion of funds of funds that come from the federal government is smaller than you think, and conservatives are constantly posturing to take even that away. (Recall the Big Bird meme that came out of the presidential debates?). The lions share of federal funds go to keeping stations broadcasting, not towards content creation.
It's unlikely that any given piece of content was wholly funded by the public.
Not trying to troll I just don't understand why this is 'legitimate' and the pirate bay is not? If this was produced with my tax dollars and broadcast free on tv with no commercials why isn't it perfectly acceptable for me to download this via a torrent?
Yeah only the first 15 minutes are on their website. No idea why people who own a tv who can watch the whole thing and people who only own a computer only get 15 minutes.
If it's like most other PBS shows, tomorrow it will be available in its entirety. They want you to watch it on your television if possible, then give you the opportunity to see it online after it's aired. It may only be available online for a limited time though, so don't procrastinate too long.
I tried in vain to figure out what time of day this will be airing on the West Coast, since I'm at the office and can't check the show schedule. Hopefully I can get home early enough to record a re-run :(.
Unfortunately I have Dish, and since they usually don't adjust for time zones, that probably means that it airs at 6pm for me. Thanks for the info; hopefully I can catch the rerun ><
It's on at 9pm until 10:30pm where I am in Canada but we get Boston PBS but I'm one hour ahead of US Eastern but the show times are shown in my local time by my TV provider.
For the US Eastern time zone 8pm to 9:30pm, if US Pacific time does PBS show at the same time or 8pm locally?
About how the silicon became fabless and offshored. About how Indians took over Koreatown, how all the buildings along the 101 stretch went up then empty.
About how the pioneers settled down while the goldrushers came in wanting a piece in San Francisco even though the 49ers came down to Santa Clara. About how the old campuses went away and got replaced by higher density condos since no one could afford houses.
About how there were the rich and the other half scrambled. About what happens in the middle of the night in those Sunnyvale corporate parks.
About how it's just really bitter and sweet as home.