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Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley (Hardcover)

by CA Finn (Author) "The flight to San Jose was packed ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: MIT Press (21 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0262062240
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262062244
  • Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.3 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Observing the dot-com boom and bust was like watching time-lapse photography suggests Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley. It seemed unreal, unsettling, yet deeply compelling. How can we try to understand the cultural changes wreaked by the last "new economy" of the 20th century? Oxford scholar Christine A Finn spent 2000 in San Jose and its surrounding valley, exploring the personal and material culture of the area. Her outsider's report is a great start for students of the accelerating rate of social change.

Though she's no techie herself, she has an uncanny knack for meeting the right people at the right time to get the information she needs to drive her story onward. Talking with successes and failures, pre-IPO orchard-workers turned uncertain service industry workers and unashamed old-tech geeks, she finds a wealth of passion and confusion as social upheaval threatens to make the area's daily earthquakes nothing more than a convenient bundle of metaphors.

Finn is blessed with the ability and willingness to admit her own bafflement--when the goings-on get too weird for her to explain, she just shrugs her shoulders and moves on, leaving explanations to later theorists. Written just as the bust was recognised as more than a temporary setback, Artifacts could have been an epitaph or a morality play; instead, Finn guides the reader to a broader understanding of human motivation and behaviour amid trying times. --Rob Lightner



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"What if Silicon Valley were covered in volcanic dust, higher than the highest building, so the De Anza Hotel sign in San Jose became a landmark on the ground? What would be made of the cars on the freeways, where old Buicks and the new Boxters run together, or the stunning, huge houses that seemed to have only one occupant? My methodology was simple; I drove around, walked, talked, asked questions, and kept a journal with paper and pen." - from the preface:
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1.0 out of 5 stars Archaeology and Computers; Not!, 23 April 2002
By jonahlaw@yahoo.com (Costa Mesa, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This is not a scientific nor computer related
book. Artifacts are not laid out properly nor investigated. This book is a fairy tale of the authors adventures while touring the west coast of the United States. Someone should have guided her properly into the correct science, computer and archaeological methods here. No one wishes to read about her newly found entertainment travelogues of those she traded for. A very confusing writing stlye indeed! Long winded in the topics of personal dining, traveling, and events-how about going into depth about artifacts?
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