Did the Military Build Silicon Valley?
Building Tomorrow
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The US Government Funding of Research in the US
The us. Avoided making the mistake of trying to centralize industrial policy in government run research labs. It also meant tying up a limited supply of researchers on projects that interested the military. That created a bottle neck that discouraged innovation and consumer facing products. Close to a hundred % of integrated circuits went to the military up until the early 19 sixties, leaving consumere tronics dependent on vacuum tube and germanium base tec later than might have otherwise been true.
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