When you pull off Highway 101 and head into Sunnyvale, Calif., the first
thing you notice is how boring innovation looks up close. This small
Silicon Valley city, which abuts both Cupertino, the home of Apple, and
Mountain View, the site of the Googleplex, is where Lockheed built the
Poseidon nuclear missile. It’s where the forebear of NASA did some of
its most important research and where a prototype for Pong debuted at a
neighborhood bar. Countless ambitious start-ups — with names like Qvivr,
Schoolfy, eCloset.me and PeerPal — appear in Sunnyvale every year.
Aesthetically, though, the city is one enormous glass-and-stucco office
park after another. Its dominant architectural feature, the five-story
headquarters of Yahoo, a few minutes from Innovation Way, looks about as
futuristic as a suburban hospital.
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