National Geographic on Silicon Valley in 1982: A Prototype of the Future
The year is 1982. Michael Jackson’s Thriller’s climbing the music charts, E.T.’s in the theaters, and a patch of land dubbed Silicon Valley is catching notice. The drug-fueled, theft-filled, innovation-driven culture of it’s pulsating to the beat of the future. That year, National Geographic printed an article called “High Tech, High Risk, and High Life,”…