Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005

摘要

The success of Silicon Valley as a technology region has encouraged boosters from other areas to claim some special distinction for their area or deliberately try to create an analogous high-tech region. Oregon has the "Silicon Forest," while New York City has "Silicon Alley," and so on. These regions or putative regions provide outstanding opportunities for historical analysis and Paul Ceruzzi has picked up the challenge of telling the history of Virginia suburbs lying to the southwest of Washington, D.C., covering both the military-contracting firms located in Tysons Corner and the nearby but originally unrelated computing networking firms located in the area that came to be known as Internet Alley. Ceruzzi's work combines the history of technology with the history of suburbanization, with his book showing the interplay between the history of the technology companies and the history of real estate and infrastructure development.