Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

How do you kill a place, a system? What would it mean for Palo Alto—call it the Coherent Extrapolated Volition of Palo Alto—to look at its role over the last 150 years of world history, beyond the blandishments of Bob Kaufman’s spitting gadget salesmen, and decide that Stanford’s suburb is less well suited than most to steward the world into the rest of the twenty-first century?