Richard, Jared, Gilfoyle and Dinesh have spent a chunk of this season in a sleek tech playground, with its surprise waffles and bank of thousand-dollar computer monitors, but they were always destined to return to the garage. It’s a mystery whether the man is supposed to be Steve Wozniak or Steve Jobs, but the iconography is central to the legend of Silicon Valley: Innovators in a garage, with big ideas and minimal resources, poised to change the world.Įrlich Bachman’s grimy “incubator” in “Silicon Valley” is just such a garage, even though his actual garage, as we learned last week, is too plagued by rodents for human occupation. But the world has changed since 1982, the day Walt Disney’s “Future World” opened, and so the last stage has been updated to show the inside of a garage, where a shaggy, bearded man is crouched over a desk, building the first home computer. The first half of the ride is a gentle ascent along the benchmarks of human communication throughout the centuries, from cave drawings to the printing press. On a recent family trip to Epcot Center, we went on the park’s signature attraction, Spaceship Earth, an 18-story spherical wonder that looks like the ball set on the first hole tee on God’s celestial golf course.
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