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==Further reading== * A description of high-tech life in Palo Alto around 1995 is found in the novel by [[Douglas Coupland]], ''[[Microserfs]]''. * [[Ben Tarnoff|Tarnoff, Ben]], "Better, Faster, Stronger" (review of [[John Tinnell]], ''The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weisner, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things'', University of Chicago Press, 347 pp.; and [[Malcolm Harris]], ''Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World'', Little, Brown, 708 pp.), ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', vol. LXX, no. 14 (September 21, 2023), pp. 38β40. "[Palo Alto is] a place where the [United States'] contradictions are sharpened to their finest points, above all the defining and enduring contradictions between [[democracy|democratic principle]] and antidemocratic practice. There is nothing as American as celebrating [[social equality|equality]] while subverting it. Or as [[California]]n." (p. 40.) * Bowling, Matt, and Betty Gerard. ''Palo Alto Remembered: Stories from a Cityβs Past''. Palo Alto, California: Palo Alto Historical Association, 2012. * [[Malcolm Harris|Harris, Malcolm]]. ''Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World''. First edition. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
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