Category: Creative Minds

San Francisco Investing $100M For Pre-Fab Homes To Address Housing Crisis

September 12, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced plans to invest $100 million in funds toward purchasing modular homes that would be constructed at a proposed factory within the city and help address its housing crisis. According to the mayor, the construction of modular homes, also known as pre-fabricated homes, would help…

via San Francisco Investing $100M For Pre-Fab Homes To Address Housing Crisis — CBS San Francisco

History and Birthplace of “Silicon Valley”

August 24, 2018

We didn’t know before they started construction. Nobody used to pay attention to San Antonio shopping mall. It was just a residential place more than the shopping mall.
We used to go for the pumpkin patch or Christmas tree lot.
It was the huge empty parking lot with the side street had a sign “Silicon Valley”.
When construction people started building something. Everybody was guessing what it will be.
We knew what it will be but, exactly what kind of office, hotel, cinema.
The scientists and engineers who worked at 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California, laid the technological and cultural foundations for today’s Silicon Valley.

 

http://www.computerhistory.org/events/upcoming/#celebrating-birthplace-silicon-valley