| | Amazon.com: Route 128 & the Birth of the Age of High Tech (Images of America): Books: Alan R. Earls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | In the early years of the century, the ground was being sown for a new economy to supplant the slowly declining shoe and textile manufacturing industries that had long dominated the region. |
 | | ÝÝRoute 128 and the Birth of the Age of High Tech tells the intertwining stories of the construction of the nationís first circumferential beltway and the burgeoning high-tech industries of Massachusetts, which helped spawn the modern age of personal computers, the Internet, and biotechnology. |
 | | While planners seem to have recognized the importance of Route 128, the idea of a circumferential beltway was new, and detractors labeled Route 128 the road to nowhere. |
| www.amazon.com /Route-Birth-High-Images-America/dp/0738510769 (1057 words) |