It was an era of innovation in Silicon Valley that was driven by a mistrust of national governments, as well as frustration with their delay in adopting progressive reforms at home and their grand experiments and military misadventures on the world stage. This was not the technological revolution of Vannevar Bush or J. Robert Oppenheimer, who through much of their lives saw the purpose of technology as extending and enabling the American project. The individual, and later the consumer more specifically, would emerge as the principal object of this new industry’s desire and attention.
