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I hope there won't be one, at the end, what good really came out of Silicon Valley anyway? The good parts can be equated to any other place where innovation tak

I hope there won't be one, at the end, what good really came out of Silicon Valley anyway? The good parts can be equated to any other place where innovation takes place, be it in Europe or elsewhere. The rest is tons of crap and speculation.

ehvatum 6y ago
Many of the items on this list seem questionable to me, but perhaps the ideas first nucleated there. From https://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/silicon-valley-achievements https://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/silicon-valley-achie... : • Long distance high-voltage transmission • Amplifying vacuum tube • First commercial radio broadcast • Long distance continuous-wave radio transmissions • Mobile radio systems development • Klystron tube and microwave • Radar • Electronic measuring devices • Nuclear induction applications • X-ray microscope • Traveling-wave tube development • Silicon crystal-growing • Programmable hand-held calculators • Videotape and VCRs • Development of the junction transmitter • Linear accelerators for particle physics research and cancer treatment • Swept-back aircraft wings • Nuclear magnetic resonance • Random access computer storage • Disk drives • Integrated circuits • Planar processes • Lasers • Semiconductor large-scale integrated memory • Silicon gate arrays • Microprocessors • Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) • Personal computers • Open-heart surgery • Ink-jet printing • High resolution aerial photography • Spacecraft heat shields • Batch processing of micro-machined devices • Gene-cloning and gene-splicing • Video games • Silicon compilers • Automated semiconductor manufacturing equipment • Field programmable gate arrays • Prodigious advances in artificial limbs and sensory aids • Robotics • Genetic engineering • Satellite technology • 3-D computing
- amelius 6y ago
  Isn't most of the good stuff from the previous century, before the first tech bubble?
- rjsw 6y ago
  I realize you copied the list but I would argue that radar was not invented in Silicon Valley.

ehvatum 6y ago

Many of the items on this list seem questionable to me, but perhaps the ideas first nucleated there. From https://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/silicon-valley-achievements https://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/silicon-valley-achie... : • Long distance high-voltage transmission • Amplifying vacuum tube • First commercial radio broadcast • Long distance continuous-wave radio transmissions • Mobile radio systems development • Klystron tube and microwave • Radar • Electronic measuring devices • Nuclear induction applications • X-ray microscope • Traveling-wave tube development • Silicon crystal-growing • Programmable hand-held calculators • Videotape and VCRs • Development of the junction transmitter • Linear accelerators for particle physics research and cancer treatment • Swept-back aircraft wings • Nuclear magnetic resonance • Random access computer storage • Disk drives • Integrated circuits • Planar processes • Lasers • Semiconductor large-scale integrated memory • Silicon gate arrays • Microprocessors • Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) • Personal computers • Open-heart surgery • Ink-jet printing • High resolution aerial photography • Spacecraft heat shields • Batch processing of micro-machined devices • Gene-cloning and gene-splicing • Video games • Silicon compilers • Automated semiconductor manufacturing equipment • Field programmable gate arrays • Prodigious advances in artificial limbs and sensory aids • Robotics • Genetic engineering • Satellite technology • 3-D computing

amelius 6y ago
Isn't most of the good stuff from the previous century, before the first tech bubble?
rjsw 6y ago
I realize you copied the list but I would argue that radar was not invented in Silicon Valley.