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The Marriage of Silicon Valley and the Pentagon Is Happening
- microwavecamera 8y agoI know this has been posted before but if you haven't seen it, definitely check out Steve Blank's "Secret History of Silicon Valley" presentation. Silicon Valley was founded by the Defense Dept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
- TheOperator 8y agoIsn't the Pentagon the father of the Valley? How is this marriage legal?
- rasz 8y agoHappening^^^Continuing Silicon Valley was build on military spending, who do you think was Shockley's biggest clients? Fairchild Semi's first transistor went into bombers, Google was funded by NSA/CIA (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...), etc.
- HNLurker2 8y agoWell this throws away all pg's ideas about how to create silicon valley in his essays. (It is not the engineers and venture capitalists)
- mips_avatar 8y agoMy experience is largely that US engineers want to help the US military. But they don't feel comfortable confronting the vocal anti-military minority.