"A history that’s only written to flatter our present leaves out the smaller stories, the reverberations of ambition and frustration, the minor hopes of making a living rather than ruling the world." Hua Hsu, on how Silicon Valley has changed since he grew up there, in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Silicon Valley CircuitsRoute 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future.placesjournal.org