PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe book presents a polemical but thorough history ... Though it avoids autobiography, Harris’s book is nonetheless as much a product of Palo Alto as the author himself ... This work of rewriting stories that saturated the author’s own childhood environment is what makes Harris’s book more than a synthesis and vulgarization of academic histories of Silicon Valley ... Evaluating a book that is at once so detailed and so ambitious demands too much of any single reviewer. Professional historians will be better placed to weigh the merits of Harris’s presentation and to say whether it deserves the amount of publicity it has already received.
