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As a non-Indian, what does this mean? “Sunnyvale is an apt name for a city in the heart of Silicon Valley, at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area, w
by georgeburdell 4y ago
As a non-Indian, what does this mean?
“Sunnyvale is an apt name for a city in the heart of Silicon Valley, at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area, where the sky is always blue and largely cloudless. The burgeoning population of Indian techies has earned the city its new moniker ‘Sooraj Nagari’, much the way neighbouring Mountain View—home to Google’s global headquarters—goes by the name ‘Pahar Ganj’.”
Also, uh what? The 1960s were dominated by hippies, which are more like Luddites outside of drug use, if you consider LSD “technology”. The 1950s and the early Space Age much more align with a tech utopian vision
“Silicon Valley owes its ideals of technological utopianism to the culture of the 1960s–a heady belief that tech is inherently a force for good in the world. “
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoMany of the early tech pioneers in SV were hippies, who sought utopia via information sharing, which meant computers accessible by all.
- edgyquant 4y agoNo they weren’t most were military contractors until 70s. This is a romanticized notion based on a few famous individuals.
- georgeburdell 4y agoWhat is early, and who besides Steve Jobs (who I would not consider an early silicon valley pioneer anyway) fits that mold? Most were straight-laced tie-wearing scientist-engineer types until the dotcom era.
- tauwauwau 4y agoRichard Stallman still looks like one to me :), I know its from late Internet era, but see following https://youtu.be/4Q7FTjhvZ7Y?t=705 https://youtu.be/4Q7FTjhvZ7Y?t=705
- chrsig 4y agorichard stallman has always operated out of cambridge, ma afaik
- ROTMetro 4y agoUmmm, while not 'Silicon Valley' the Santa Cruz tech scene from the 70s until the early 2000s very much looked like this. Maybe not the big guys, but the hundreds of 10-150 people shops trying to make a more technological world for sure. All the industry events I went to over the hill seemed fairly well representative of this as well. It had a lot more hardware elements so a ton of super hippie stoner hardware technicians that don't seem to be part of the current monoculture there. Larger name examples being Borland, Seagate, EMU, SCO. And ties? Jean/dress shirt in the 70, polo shirt khakis 80-early 2000s was 'formal'. I never saw anyone wearing ties other than visiting sale people or visiting 'money guys' pre 2000s, not even our AIX repair guys. Not like the people when I go back to the Bay Area now, where even their 'casual' dress scream of financial excess.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoLee Felsenstein, for one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Felsenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Felsenstein
- tauwauwau 4y agoSooraj Nagari == Sun City ~= Sunnyvale Pahar Ganj == Mountain Neighborhood ~= Mountain View
- pjc50 4y agoThe overlap was through culture like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL
- jogjayr 4y agoI am Indian, lived in Mountain View and Sunnyvale for nearly a decade, and never heard of either of those nicknames for those cities.