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How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara

Tech Won't Save Us

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Homebrew and the Battle Lines Are Drawn

In the late seventies, home brewers were selling microsock as a business. Bill gates and steve jobbs set themselves apart by designing mother boards around crutty chips. As we move in to the 19 eighties, then there is another evolution of this kind of world view. This is where kindof linking tuck history and annesting it in a broader political history helps us understand what's going on.

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