
How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara
Tech Won't Save Us
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Computers Are a Tool of Liberation
In the late sixties, students were sharing punch cards as giant impersonal i b m, blubabla. In 19 71, you have intel coming out with what they call a computer on a chip,. Other micro chip companies are coming out with the same thing. And this is where we get so you have this group of tinkerers that end up radicalized to some degree in college. You know how i'm going to change the world? I'm going to do it through computers.
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