Lockheed, Lockheed Lockheed and Lockhed - The Biggest Employer in the Valley

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Stanford becomes major recipient of federal money. It also grows defense contracting firms, aero space companies. Lockheed is the bigest employer in the valley from the 19 fifties through to pretty much the end of the cold war,. You'd never know it because almost all they did was top secret stuff.

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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