What's Happening in the Bay Area?

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After the war, there was a new kind of enemy for the united states to compete with. The technological progress becomes almost like a battlefield in this new kind of cold war. And so you have the soviet union testing its first atomic bomb in 19 forty nine and then you have the sputnic launch in 19 57. And so the united states isn't very concerned about these developments,. So what effect does that have on the ability of universities like stamford, i guess? I guess, yes, the cold war spending has a transformative effect. It's not just how much it is, but the way it's spent. This is a very american story, and

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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