The Californian Ideology

The tech industry, as we know it, got its start courtesy of government money. From Colossus to EdVac, the development of computing has depended at key moments on public research handouts or fat contracts with public agencies. The West Coast high-tech industrial complex has been feasting off the fattest port in history for decades. Americans have always state planning, but they prefer to call it defense budget. For years, we've listened to the podcast They Don't Want You To Know to find out how conspiracy theories get so far into popular culture. With this book, Noel Brown and Ben Bolin are separating fact from conspiracy theory.