the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. we went into the 1980s in 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 d be driving home and you d say, i can t wait to check my messages. you know, it had become 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 st
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
the mushrooming industry gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. the magic part of silicon valley is that there was this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox park, and stanford university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. there was 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. so you had cheap semiconductors. you had people that 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 home brew computer. you could make them yourself.
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.
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 brainpower for 1,001 electronic gadgets from wristwatches to microwave ovens. the mushrooming industry gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. the magic part of silicon valley is that there was this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox park, and stanford university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. there was 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.