Excavating Calabazas Creek: An Inefficient Route Through Silicon Valley

I grew up in Cupertino, California, a place synonymous with Silicon Valley and which most people know as the home of Apple. If you had told teenage Jenny that I would have even half an hour’s worth of stuff to say about Cupertino, I would have been surprised, because my experience of Cupertino was mostly this: <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:630/1*TaCIgc9YDdG0Ltb6QUrmmw.png" style="height:525px; width:700px" /> a typical scene. (Courtesy of author) To me as a bored teenager, the city was merely a sea of interchangeable shopping centers, office parks, and six lane roads with eternal traffic lights. It turns out that in the 1960s they already had a word for this: slurb. Like the technology that comes out of Cupertino, my slurb felt disconnected from place and time, somehow equally a-spatial and ahistorical. <a href="https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/excavating-calabazas-creek-an-inefficient-route-through-silicon-valley-8f6d0b119583">Click Here</a>