TOM WOLFE's "NEW JOURNALISM" MEETS HIGH-TECH HISTORY
"How Grinnell, Iowa of 1948 was revived in 1983"
In of all places, Esquire magazine!

Sadly, it seems that most people know little, if anything, about the origins of our electronic age and the implications of Information Technology; so conclude recent surveys carried out, both here and abroad, by the National Science Foundation, the Pew Trust and the National Academy of Engineering.

The NSF laments the fact that such limitations on the public's understanding of technology hamper our ability to decide—especially in places like voting booths—on the important technology issues that affect individuals, families and the country’s future. Something we all knew anyway. ‘Nuf said!

Just maybe, it’s not the message that the public is unaware of or dismisses but rather the messenger: the media by which and over which the messages are carried. It seems that new messengers are needed, which is the intent of this website: to be such a new messenger and catalyst for new ways of learning.

As the IEEE’s Annals of Computing remarked in its review that Bright Boys is: “perhaps a wave of the future as readers' expectations for ‘exciting’ history reading grows.” We feel that high-tech history is already exciting enough but very inaccessible for most lay people and is badly in need of repackaging for modern audiences. We aim to change some of that using new media and an old model.

Nearly thirty years ago, Tom Wolfe and his New Journalism repackaged high-tech history in a new and powerful way with articles, actually, well-wrought—stories! for Esquire magazine. “The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How the Sun Rose on Silicon Valley”, was one. Read it here, it’s still amazing. Such storytelling of high-tech history, making it more engaging and easy to consume, is what we're all about. And our audience is taking notice and arriving ...bite by bite . Visit us: brightboys.org is a resource of non-profit Bright Boys Media, Inc.