Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World The Libertines 1: Bottle Rocket

1: Bottle Rocket

Peter Buck

It is their first encounter with the wonders of the 21st century

Berman is currently co-curating an exhibition of Nordic art and design for the Frick Museum

to the 1943 Bengal famine

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World The Libertines 1: Bottle RocketThe true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesised with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley, whose products are changing how we do everything from driving around to eating food. It is also a haunted toxic