"We romanticize the visionaries and tolerate the failures, so long as the next version works ... But a history that’s only written to flatter our present leaves out smaller stories, the reverberations of ambition and frustration, the minor hopes of making a living rather than ruling the world."
Silicon Valley CircuitsRoute 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future.placesjournal.org