Silicon Valley is just going back to its roots as the article mentions: > Tech’s military ties predate Silicon Valley, which began in the late 1950s when fundi

Silicon Valley is just going back to its roots as the article mentions: > Tech’s military ties predate Silicon Valley, which began in the late 1950s when funding from defense and intelligence agencies transformed a stretch of fruit orchards into production grounds for mainframes and microprocessors. > These relationships dwindled during the internet era, then slowly resumed after 9/11, Margaret O’Mara writes in her 2019 book, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. Palantir, co-founded by Thiel, was one such company formed during the “war on terror,” with backing from the CIA’s venture firm, In-Q-Tel.