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#23 The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

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Evolution of Silicon Valley from building machines to developing concepts

Silicon Valley's evolution from building machines to developing new concepts and ideas for computers marked a significant shift in the Valley's story. Engineers realized in the early 1990s that they could get rich not by building new computers, but by creating new functionalities for the existing ones. This transition highlighted a shift from focusing on machine building to valuing the creation of new concepts, also referred to as the 'recipes'. This shift broadened the notion of what constituted useful work in Silicon Valley.

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