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How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara

Tech Won't Save Us

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What's Going on in Stamford?

The valley was most famous for its production of tree fruit, apricots and prunes. But it had these personal connections and institutional connections into this emerging military industrial complex. The specialization in small electronic devices and communication devices turn out to be the building blocks of a communications revolution to come.

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