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Silicon Valley is not responsible for most of the world's innovation. Not even within tech. If the internet started any one place it was at BBN around Boston. T
by notacoward 8y ago
Silicon Valley is not responsible for most of the world's innovation. Not even within tech. If the internet started any one place it was at BBN around Boston. The web started at CERN. Microprocessors started at Bell Labs and Texas Instruments. Cellular phones started at Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia. Amazon's up in Seattle, next door to Microsoft, and even Facebook is an import. SV isn't even a player in biotech, clean tech, materials science, etc. The cult of Silicon Valley is getting ridiculous.
- JKCalhoun 8y agoYou're not going back far enough though — personal computers, the transistor, microprocessor....
- notacoward 8y agoUm, I did mention Bell Labs (transistors) and TI (microprocessors). PC is a good addition, though.
- noir_lord 8y agoLiquid Crystal Displays at the university of a former fishing town in the north of the UK (my home town) [1]. [1] George William Gray - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Gray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Gray