Silicon Valley No_Code Life

Silicon Valley exists as a “non-place.” There are no road signs, no boundary lines that delineate it, which means that from a purely geographical perspective, Silicon Valley doesn’t exist. Silicon Valley is not like you might imagine. The illusion of it as a highly technological environmental spacepersists thanks in part to distorted narratives that have conflated “hightech” with futuristic illusions. We might think of The Valley as a place where everything is mechanized and the colors of the sun glint against aluminum surfaces. A built environment replete with autonomous cars anda horizon line dominated by science-fiction-inspired laboratories. The reality is actually starkly different. The aim of this book is to examine everyday life in The Valley through a series of photographic images and to offer a tool that can be used to reconsider the clash between the California counter culture in the 1960s and 1970s and the digital atomization that ensued.