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What opened my eyes to where the true innovative roots of SV were planted was a lecture from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (CA): https://www.yout
by Noseshine 10y ago
What opened my eyes to where the true innovative roots of SV were planted was a lecture from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (CA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
TL;DW: It all harks back to WWII and unlimited government spending on electronics (and related) R&D - financed based mostly on never before seen amounts of government debt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_public_debt#/media/File:Federal_Debt_Held_by_the_Public_1790-2013.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_p...).
- botterworkshop 10y agoThis was a fascinating video! Thanks for sharing! Love Steve Blank
- digi_owl 10y agoSimilarly, antibiotics languished until WW2 because it a right pain to mass produce. But with the war came effectively bottomless budgets, and so the needed R&D for mass production was bootstrapped.