Silicon Valley's origins are deeply entwined with the military industrial complex and federal money. To argue otherwise is historical revisionism. William Shoc

Silicon Valley's origins are deeply entwined with the military industrial complex and federal money. To argue otherwise is historical revisionism. William Shockley is credited with making Silicon Valley what it is today. He was a federal researcher who hired eight other federal researchers. [1] They then created Fairchild Semiconductor which developed transistors for the aerospace industry. Look up the history of Shockley, Noyce, Fairchild, Intel. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight