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The dark history of Silicon Valley

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There a Sustainable Way to Run a Society?

"It's hard for me to believe that people like Teal or anyone who really believes this," he says. "I mean, maybe this is part of the fantasy that then they can just, they can take everything they possibly can from this world and then just flee it." The first generation of Silicon chips didn't all go into rockets going to the moon again, talking about escape and space as the like clean, nice version. They went into nuclear weapons where it was the entire strategy of the United States in maintaining its place in the world.

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