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The Lunch That Launched Silicon Valley

Sixty-five years ago, William Shockley laid the foundation for the region’s domination in tech

David A. Laws
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Published in
8 min readFeb 25, 2021

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With the past year’s rise of remote work and exodus from the Bay Area to cheaper cities, many people have wrung their hands about whether or not Silicon Valley is dead. The truth is that Silicon Valley has gone through many eras of boom and…

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I photograph and write about Gardens, Nature, Travel, and the history of Silicon Valley from my home on the Monterey Peninsula in California.