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Secret History of Silicon Valley
- mitko 16y agowhat the hell is he talking about at 5:40 Germany and Russia (soviet union at the time) attacked Poland in September 1939 he loses all credibility about history when he makes such egregious mistake during the first 5 minutes of the talk.
- Duff 16y agoWhat mistake? The Soviet invasion started a couple of weeks after the German invasion.
- mitko 16y agohe makes it sound that they were allies - they signed a non-aggression pact to divide the area between themselves - the two biggest bullies in the region.
- Duff 16y agoThey were more like allies than enemies at that point. The pact carved up Polish (and other nations) territory a few weeks in advance of the German invasion.
- stcredzero 16y agoWell, the kind of allies who are looking for the prime opportunity to knife each other in the back because they think the other is a egregious evil that has no honor nor deserves to quarter. If it wasn't for this mutual utter disdain, the allies might not have won WWII.
- Duff 16y agoThis happens all of the time. Unfortunately, that's the reality of international politics.
- CapitalistCartr 16y agoThey essentially were allies at that point; irrespective of having signed a formal treaty to the effect.
- jackfoxy 16y agoWhat egregious mistake are your referring to? People in the west have frequently conflated Russia and the Soviet Union for nearly a century. It doesn't discredit the rest of what the author has to say. And as for the events of September 1939, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact#Initial_invasions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact...
- iterationx 16y agoSummary up to minute 37: After World War II the DoD partners with Universities, especially Stanford.
- morganw 16y agoThere's a lot more to it than that. Terman encouraged students and professors to take the research they did at Stanford (on the DoD's dime) and found companies to mostly build electronic warfare equipment for the NSA/CIA/Air Force. Blank's painting the picture of the magnitude of the crisis that drove the development then vs. the profit motive that drives it now is worth the time. Blank's diagram of semiconductor companies that came from Shockley through the Fairchild Traitorous Eight is blurry at Flash-Slideshare and in the PDF, but another version of that story showing the connections of Zilog, National Semi, Cirrus and Cypress is at Business Week http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/fairkid.pdf http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/fairkid.pdf