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Questioning the Silicon Valley 'gospel'

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Ajit Balakrishnan

5 min read Last Updated : Oct 19 2020 | 11:58 PM IST

Silicon Valley, that geographic stretch of the San Francisco Bay Area, is to the computer technology world what Rome is to the Catholic world or Mecca to the Islamic world: Anything that the seers there say is treated as gospel and above questioning. That should not be a surprise since the Silicon Valley is the home of Facebook, Google, and Apple, not to mention a vast number of other world-leading tech businesses.

Early in this book, the author, Alexandre Lazarow declares the intention to “Question the Silicon Valley Gospel”. In fact, he goes so far as to say that the Silicon

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