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Ehh, if you're going to stress the SV connection to the modern tech industry, I'd say that William Shockley, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore had far more influen
by monoideism 6y ago
Ehh, if you're going to stress the SV connection to the modern tech industry, I'd say that William Shockley, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore had far more influence - even culturally - than Timothy Leary.
And I wasn't comparing us to luminaries like Feynman, but rather to the working men and women of the Apollo program.
- erulabs 6y agoFair enough - I was generalizing heavily. I'd not heard of Robert Noyce before, but I'm glad to have some weekend reading! In response to your comparison then, I suppose I would say we're as close (or closer) to the hippies of burning man and esalen than we are to the engineers of the Apollo program. It's certainly a mixture of both - I just think the former tends to be marginalized is all.
- monoideism 6y ago> we're as close (or closer) to the hippies of burning man and esalen I might concede this for SV, but not for the American tech industry as a whole. SV has an outside cultural influence on the rest of us, but even it doesn't dominant in places like NYC, RTP, etc.