- SKU: 9781969944017
- BARCODE: 9781969944017
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Silicon Valley Reimagined: Illustrated Gadgets from an Alternate 1949 - Paperback
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Description
by Joseph Fortune (Author)
In January 1949, the Benedetti Brothers & Co. of Santa Clara Valley published their latest home technology catalog. Inside: wireless telephones, portable radios, data wristwatches, and tabulating machines for the home - all available for immediate delivery.
Silicon Valley Reimagined: Illustrated Gadgets from an Alternate 1949 presents a meticulously crafted product catalog from a timeline where the tech revolution arrived decades early. Each illustrated gadget carries the analog aesthetic of the postwar era - warm wood finishes, vacuum tubes, precision dials - wrapped around technology the real 1949 could never have imagined.
Complete with fictional manufacturers, period-accurate pricing, and 2025 equivalents that reveal just how far ahead of their time these devices were, this is alternate history told not through narrative, but through the everyday language of commerce - a catalog from a world that almost was.
For readers who love technology history, industrial design, speculative fiction, and the enduring question of what Silicon Valley might have looked like if someone had gotten there first.
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