Silicon City

San Francisco—famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement—has a reputation for pushing boundaries and exploring new, radical ideas. But something dangerous is happening: rapid changes in technology and wealth have transformed the entire region and the social structures that once held the Bay Area together. In SILICON CITY: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley Cary McClelland—a writer and documentary filmmaker—observes San Francisco’s remarkable and often devastating transformation and asks the question: can a city lose its soul?