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Because Edwin Black wrote a book about it right around the time Silicon Valley kept lecturing people how it could do no wrong and would save the world. Also be
by doubloon 3y ago
Because Edwin Black wrote a book about it right around the time Silicon Valley kept lecturing people how it could do no wrong and would save the world.
Also because someone could have written a similar book about how IBM helped Stalin and the Communists but most anti-communists don't want to rehash old problems that would only hurt one of their best friends and best returning stocks.
- mynameisnoone 3y agoIt's a dirty, open secret that Stanford and most ivy leagues also participated in and continue to benefit from the military-industrial complex. And checkout this partial list of openly-known startups with In-Q-Tel (CIA-affiliated) VC funding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments
- TheOtherHobbes 3y agoI think many people have realised that FAANG is just a rebrand of mil-ind decorated with brightly coloured office furniture.
- Aerbil313 3y agoThe list is shocking for me, and an even more shocking thought is that probably most of these startups are useless today. Google alone can now provide maybe more half of the technologies these startups tried to achieve in the 2000s.