Most interesting. Thank you for sharing, Trevor. I note that Silicon Valley is explicitly depicted as a place -- a collection of people and interactions -- while the other locales on the horizon -- MIT, the NYSE, Washington -- are portrayed as single-building institutions. --AMM -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Andrew Meade McGee Corcoran Department of History University of Virginia PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall Charlottesville, VA 22904 On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Trevor Croker <tcroker@vt.edu> wrote:
Andrew,
This might be the type of image that you are looking for. The artist Kirby Scudder did an overview of Palo Alto using Steinberg's style in 2014.
Blog post on the illustration. <http://kirbyscudder.com/illustration/posters/palo-alto/>
The poster itself (not sure if there is a higher resolution out there) <https://kirbyscudder.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/smallposter.jpg>.
Best, Trevor
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Cary Gray <cary.gray@wheaton.edu> wrote:
The Stanford Bookstore sold a poster along these lines when I was a grad student in the 1980s. My recollections are that the legend was “Stanford: A View of the World”, and that Silicon Valley was one of the small foreground features at the right edge. That would be a much larger feature if drawn today, and Sand Hill Road would now appear on the left margin.
(A quick search for an image doesn’t turn it up—probably because of copyright issues. I did find links to an artist selling something with a similar idea, but definitely not the poster I recall.)
Cary Gray
On Oct 16, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae@virginia.edu> wrote:
Someone ought to do an updated version of the famous Steinberg New Yorker cartoon Bill linked to, representing today's tech industry and centered on Silicon Valley.
As Nathan Ensmenger's keynote at the SIGCIS workshop last weekend pointed out, that's an industry aggressively rewriting its past and seeking to pivot the rest of the world's concerns -- economic, policy, social -- around its mobile, app-based worldview. The tech view from Palo Alto circa the 2010s is not that dissimilar to the media industry's view from New York in the 1970s.
--AMM
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:28 PM, McMillan, William W < william.mcmillan@cuaa.edu> wrote: Evan, you just need to understand geography a little better:
http://www.mappingthenation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Rumsey-Steinberg-New...
- Bill
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Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 3:26 PM To: Sigcis Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Oy! Another crazy computer history claim
NY's Metropolitan Transit Authority -- the people who runs the subways, trains, and buses -- hired a tour guide for Grand Central Station who's saying that the terminal's circa-1913 electromechanical signaling system is "the first electronic computer".
Who was the chief engineer, Shiva Ayyadurai?
This story is very unfortunately in Gothamist -- a very popular NYC site. I shudder to think how many people now accept it as fact.
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