{"id":478,"date":"2014-10-05T21:16:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T04:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/mmmzev\/?p=13"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:15:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:15:32","slug":"zevs-really-fly-cst-post-one-and-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/zevs-really-fly-cst-post-one-and-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Zev\u2019s Really Fly CST Post \/ One (And Revision)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to create a new class of artisans&#8230;&#8221; (45) says Tjan in <em>Makers<\/em>. And indeed, the book is about frontiers in\u00a0many forms. This is represented by a literal move away from Silicone valley, and the ebbs of the dot-com-boom, by our Carraway-esque heroine, Suzanne Church. &#8220;Suzanne had heard a lot of people talk about giving up on the Valley since she&#8217;d moved here.&#8221; (58). She discovers, like the reader and like the tech industry, that the future is elsewhere. In her case,\u00a0<em>elsewhere<\/em> is the seemingly egalitarian workshop of Perry and Lester in a charmingly decaying Miami suburb: &#8220;The great cities of commerce like New York and San Francisco seemed too real for her, while the suburbs of Florida were a kind of endless summer camp, a dreamtime where anything was possible.&#8221; (71). This perhaps begs the question: are frontiers harder to establish in metropolises\u00a0with endless competing startups, thirty dollar hamburgers, and two thousand dollar single-bedroom apartments?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A revision:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The great cities of commerce like New York and San Francisco seemed too real for her, while the suburbs of Florida were a kind of endless summer camp, a dreamtime where anything was possible.&#8221; (71).\u00a0This perhaps begs the question: are frontiers harder to establish in metropolises\u00a0with endless competing startups, thirty dollar hamburgers, and two thousand dollar single-bedroom apartments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to create a new class of artisans&hellip;&rdquo; (45) says Tjan in Makers. And indeed, the book is about frontiers in&nbsp;many forms. This is represented by a literal move away from Silicone valley, and the ebbs of the dot-com-boom, by our Carraway-esque heroine, Suzanne Church. &ldquo;Suzanne had heard a lot of people talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}