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This combination should be unsurprising to anyone who knows the history of Stanford.

• jwoq9118 3y ago
  Enlighten me. Looking for some weekend reading.
  • rapsey 3y ago
    I'm sure there are lots of reading options but this is a very good presentation on the topic (of Silicon Valley and Stanford). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
  • emodendroket 3y ago
    Perhaps ambitious for a weekend but Chris Miller’s Chip War will enlighten you quite a bit about both Silicon Valley’s history and the current politics around semiconductors.
  • dredmorbius 3y ago
    Steve Blank's "Secret History" gives a pretty good overview, starting with Terman and WWII, and going heavy on Cold War R&D. <https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ https://steveblank.com/secret-history/> Something of an HN favourite as well: <https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsteveblank.com%2Fsecret%2Dhistory%2F https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsteveblank.com%2Fsec...>
  • nkh 3y ago
    The best book on this is: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet (Desc: The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.) https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/yasha-levine/surveillance-valley/9781610398039/ https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/yasha-levine/survei...
  • red-iron-pine 3y ago
    San Fran and the greater bay area were huge Naval installations and grew massively in WW2, and much of the early silicon valley was directly funded by US Fed'Gov R&D efforts. ARPAnet comes to mind, for example. Vint Cerf had (has?) security clearances and worked for DARPA
• xyst 3y ago
  mkultra?
• cyclecount 3y ago
  A great book on exactly that subject: Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61108472-palo-alto https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61108472-palo-alto