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How San Francisco became a tech capital, then nearly lost itself

Jonathan Weber's City on the Edge draws on 200 interviews to trace the internet boom, Burning Man, and the "City Family" that ran San Francisco.

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 13, 2026
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City on the Edge — "San Francisco Skyline in Fog" by TimeLapseBlog.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
City on the Edge — "San Francisco Skyline in Fog" by TimeLapseBlog.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Jonathan Weber has written a history of San Francisco's rise as a global technology capital and the crises that came with it. City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco opens in the early 1990s, when San Francisco h…

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