The Golden Gate Bridge frames the San Francisco skyline as a ship passes beneath it in this view taken from the Marin Headlands near Sausalito Calif Wednesday June A century and a half after the clarion cry of Gold boys gold California today is a parade of clashing icons Its a place of eggheads and Deadheads hippies and hiphop a place where towheaded beach boys surf the waves and balding billionaires surf the Net a place where dreamers push their visions of science and culture to the edge and where losers wake in the gray dawn of reality to find theyve gone over it As the sun sets on the th century California is a state of mindbr