Earlier than Google, Yahoo and even Apple, earlier than the Silicon Valley cliché of casual gown code, skateboards working the corridors and wild creativity grew to become commonplace, one firm embodied the digital economic system way of life and enterprise model: the one agency popping out of the Age of Aquarius was Atari. The story of Atari is two-thirds the story of Nolan Bushnell, founder and visionary, and one-third the primary and doubtless greatest growth and bust of the brand new economic system some 20 years earlier than the brand new economic system even existed. Atari was displaying that expertise is cool, approach earlier than the private laptop revolution happened and so they have been reaching out to an ever-growing viewers with one thing that's nonetheless cool immediately: video video games. Atari actually launched the digital world to the mass consciousness.
