the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went in with pretty much the same technology that s been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. hello? i m not here now but my faithful machine is. there was a handful of technology at that time. one was the telephone answering machine. you would be driving home and you would say i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it becomes part of the day. honey, i m checking my messages. from the noisy streets of new york to the laid-back tranquility of california, americans are tuning out and tuning in. when i think of technology in the 1980s, i think of the walkman. the walkman was huge. it s the latest fad. tiny stereo casset
fingernail. this silicon chip supplies the brain power for 1,001 electronic gadgets from wrist watches to microwave ovens. the mushrooming industry gives birth to a high tech cult and a place called silicon valley. the magic part of silicon valley is that there is this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox and stanford university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. there were these two cultures, engineers with ph.d.s and hobbyists. it was a time when there was a lot of social fervent in and around the bay area. there was a lot of counter culture people. you had cheap semiconductors, you had people who would look at things differently than what the conventional person was and that s what the technology needed then.
the brain power for 1,001 electronic gadgets from wrist watches to microwave ovens. the mushrooming industry gives birth to a high tech cult and a place called silicon valley. the magic part of silicon valley is that there is this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox and stanford university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. there were these two cultures, engineers with ph.d.s and hobbyists. it was a time when there was a lot of social ferment in and around the bay area. there was a lot of counterculture people. you had cheap semiconductors, you had people who would look at things differently than what the conventional person was and that s what the technology
gives birth to a high tech cult and a place called silicon valley. the magic part of silicon valley is that there is this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox and stanford university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. there were these two cultures, engineers with ph.d.s and hobbyists. it was a time when there was a lot of social [ inaudible ] in and around the area. there was a lot of counter culture people. you had cheap semiconductors, you had people who would look at things differently than what the conventional person was and that s what the technology needed then. one of the things that was really hard about making a computer was now on a chip. so all of a sudden, people who had a thirst for this stuff could go out and buy a computer, you could make them yourself. there was a lot of this revolutionary theme with a lot
forever. it was the first time anyone had ever seen anything but tv on a tv, and i thought wow, this is technology. the imaginary rockets are controlled by the same chips the u.s. army used in their defense programs. but the significance of the chip does not only lie in gadgets. her whole future will be changed by the silicon chip business. it was discovered that you could actually etch a whole lot of transistors on to a piece of silicon which was basically a cheap substance that could be mass manufactured. these chips can control the flow of electrical current that in effect enables them to store and remember zillions of bits of information on a surface just a little bit thicker than an eggshell and smaller than a fingernail. this silicon chip supplies the brain power for 1,001 electronic gadgets from wrist watches to microwave ovens. the mushrooming industry gives birth to a high tech cult