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The Secret History of Silicon Valley

Published on 21/01/08
by Will Pate

Silicon Valley is a fascinating place. It’s a world center for innovation and technology, full of wickedly smart and ambitious people. A video called The Secret History of Silicon Valley is essential watching if you’re curious about how it all started.

…World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency)…

These same geniuses figured out that you could use ordinary tinfoil as plane chaff during WWII, and read Russia’s air defense network from radar signals bounced off of their own ICBM launches and the even the moon!

Unfortunately the folks from Google that put these tech talks up on YouTube don’t want me to show the video to you here. You have to click the link to see the video on YouTube.

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