The Californian Ideology

Almost every major technological advance of the last 200 years has taken place with the aid of large amounts of public money. From Colossus to Edvack, from flight simulators to virtual reality, the development of computing has depended at key moments on public research handouts or fat contracts with public agencies. The West Coast itself was a product of massive state intervention. When the US pulled out of Vietnam, thousands of these people were left out of jobs, and they were forced to move into the private sector.