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"Hi, it's Jeff." Silence. "Your grandson," I added."Oh. Yes. Jeff. How are you?"I told him I'd like to stop by and introduce him to my wife."Great," he said, sounding genuinely surprised. "Why don't you come by and pet the robots?"In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Then one day his mother announced that she and his father were divorcing after twenty years of marriage. Big deal, thought Jeff. "Everybody we knew was splitting up-it was the romantic equivalent…
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3 editions- Ebook · English · 2002Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781400033126
- Paperback · English · 2001Vintage · 272 pages · 9780679776383
- Other · English · 2000Villard · 252 pages · 9780679456988
BiographyBiography & AutobiographyNonfictionSocial conditionsSocial life and customsNew York Times reviewedCalifornia, biographyCalifornia, social conditions
