I highly recommend "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" - a talk given at the Computer History Museum. It starts with talk about radar and electronic warfare

I highly recommend "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" - a talk given at the Computer History Museum. It starts with talk about radar and electronic warfare in WWII. "Every WWII movie you have ever seen that included airplanes on bombing missions is wrong". That soon becomes the genesis of universities in the war effort (research), east vs west coast, and Stanford with Fred Terman who is widely credited as being the father of Silicon Valley (along with William Shockley). He encouraged students to set up companies, sometimes investing in them too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo Hour long video https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Terman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Terman