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One doesn't have to have ever lived in California to understand the 20th century -- the entire 20th century -- but it sure helps. My coming of age years were spent in California and in some ways California continues to feel like my real home. It's funny how California does that to one. And then there's Silicon Valley.
From the history of Palo Alto as told by Malcolm Harris, c. 2024.
What is all boils down to, from the universe, zooming into "the chip":
- the universe
- the solar system
- earth
- the United States
- California
- Stanford
- US Navy
- radio communications
- WWII
- the man: Vannevar Bush
- the light bulb -- the triode -- the antenna
- the chip: Shockley, Brattain, and Bardeen
- civil rights
The rich are different than the rest of us.
Yes. They have money.
Query:
From Malcolm Harris the history of Palo Algo: Hoover was like a vacuum, sucking up precious metals fro around the world and depositing a hefty share back into Palo Alto's giant tax shelter. Why was Palo Alto a tax shelter -- college?
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Cocktail Trivia
Query:
Was Eddie Huang ("Fresh Off The Boat") any relation to Jensen Huang?
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