What's Going on in the Semi Conductor Industry?

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The state is everywhere in Silican lo valley. Its its government involvement. It's the government kind of putting its thumb on the and funding things it wants to see happen. But it's also allowing this ontprinorial culture to flourish, and for people to build companies and make money doing so. The diversity problem is so hard to unwind because it's spent 75 years being wound up.

Paris Marx is joined by Margaret O’Mara to discuss how the state and military have been at the center of the US tech industry since the very beginning, but how it was written out of the popular narrative during the neoliberal turn in the 1980s.

Margaret O’Mara is the author of “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America” and a professor at the University of Washington. Follow Margaret on Twitter as @margaretomara.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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