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The Untold History of Silicon Valley w/ Malcolm Harris

Tech Won't Save Us

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Herbert Hoover and the Rise of the Tech Oligarchy

At the very beginning of the school, that's mining engineering. So they're training the best mining engineers./nThey really focus on promoting their mining engineering program with the idea that they were going to produce great mining engineers who would go into the world and become prominent people./nAnd this is an incredibly successful plan starting with a member of the first class and a member of the first mining engineering class, just Herbert Hoover, who then becomes president of the United States and really sets the mold for the Stanford man into the future.

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