A whole generation of workers who had staked their careers on the transformative dream of technology were suddenly, almost en masse, unemployed. It was later estimated that between 2001 and early 2004, Silicon Valley alone lost 200,000 jobs.71 A whole generation of young people had, in the space of a decade, gone from being young upstarts who “got it,” to masters of the universe who seemed to be transforming the world, to completely redundant.
