The Silicon Valley Revolution - How a few nerds did change the world

Today Silicon Valley is the home for multi-million dollar IT companies. In the beginning, however, it was unsophisticated, chaotic, and revolutionary. Hippies and amateur entrepreneurs initiated an unprecedented revolution: the pioneers of the PC wanted to change the world in an attempt to dethrone the "Big Brother". They wanted PCs for everybody instead of big computers for the powerful.

The dream of personal computers of everyone slowly turns into Big Business. In the 1980s the now legendary Macintosh goes on sale, Bill Gates creates the foundation for his economic imperium, the world wide web starts to connect billions of people all over the world and Google is founded. But what happened to the ideals of the former pioneers who prompted the entire industry?