The Tour
A 7 hour bus tour highlighting Silicon Valley history. The tour will present the idealistic roots of the high tech industry with a focus on sustainablity and "free" culture. The tour will be hosted by artists, historians, activists and locals from the surrounding communities.
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Itinerary
(subject to change)

9:30am
Meet at bus.
Bus provided by
Teacher With a Bus:

.CLICK ON THE BUS!

Outside main symposium hall - Parkside Hall (behind the Tech Museum)
*Link to photo of site
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10am SHARP: BUS LEAVES!

10am-12
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's Toxics Tour
Led by Ted Smith
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) is a diverse grassroots coalition that engages in research, advocacy, and organizing around the environmental and human health problems caused by the rapid growth of the high-tech electronics industry.
www.svtc.org/

San Jose Canneries
Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale
Romic Environmental Technologies, East Palo Alto
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1pm
Lunch
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1:30
Oyster Mushroom Bar
Led Diane Whitmore
Mycoremediation: A recipe to reverse disasters.
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2pm
Peninsula School
The Arming of Desire: Counterculture and Computer Revolution.
by Lee Felsenstein
Lee Felsenstein - sysadmin of the pioneering wide-area network Community Memory, contractor for Processor Technology, hard-working moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club, and designer of the Pennywhistle modem and the Osborne One - has lived a life constantly interwoven with the history and philosophy of computing. Through it all he's pursued Ivan illich's ideal of "conviviality," insisting that technology attains its highest purpose only when it becomes understandable, approachable, repairable and usable by ordinary people.

More info on Lee Felsenstein
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3pm
Moffet Field
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4pm
Computer History Museum
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5pm
Return to ISEA/Zero One/San Jose

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Drive by's:
Walkers Wagon Wheel
Silicon Valley landmark known as the after-hours meeting place of many Silicon Vally tech pioneers. Closed in 2003, Presently a vacant lot.

Palo Alto Stock Farm, Stanford University
Location of the first motion picture taken by Eadweard Muybridge.
1872 - EADWEARD JAMES MUYBRIDGE - (1830-1904)
Muybridge uses a battery of 24 cameras to photographh a race horse owned by California Governor Leland Stanford. The resulting 24 pictures taken as the trotting horse raced past, was the beginning of what would become known as stop-action series photography.

Web Article: The Man Who Stopped Time

Readings:
The Annihilation of Time and Space from River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
by Rebecca Solnit