Added: Dec 21, 2007
From: googletechtalks
Duration: 56:31
Google Tech Talks December, 18 2007 How Stanford the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he works in? Silicon Valley. Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you - even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how 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) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises. Speaker: Steve Blank Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high tech companies in Silicon Valley, most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been involved in or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games, and personal computers to supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Columbia University and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering.
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dervishmadwhirler Says:
Nov 1, 2008 - I wanna post hour long vids also on you tube!! gutdamnit!
dervishmadwhirler Says:
Nov 1, 2008 - So, basically, it's all for warfare and world domination purposes, isnt it? Funny, considering how American corporations and the american elite funded Adolf Hitler's rise...George dubya's grandfather was one of Hitler's major financers. Makes you think, dudnt it?
CarlyMTaylor Says:
Nov 14, 2008 - Lanchester Bomber? Get it right, WTF?
logic2reason Says:
Nov 18, 2008 - That is what humans use it for. But the end result will just prove that it really doesnt matter. At the end, we will learn from the experience. AS far as how we use it till then is up to us. But in general, people are weak, insecure and greedy. Are you suprised that our government is the same. But its our inability to understand the exponential function that tells you everything. Free market is the only way. Othewise history repeats itself. This is first time it can be over come
dervishmadwhirler Says:
Nov 19, 2008 - I think free market is not the only way; I think we should stop using money and go back to trade again; even to a form of tribal life. Modern industrial and commercial society, with work ethics and governemnt control of people's lifes is the thing that makes life into a totally unchallenging and predatory society, where the few rule the many, and every person is forced to abide by the rules of the unnatural elite. Free market is ruining nature. population will keep growing, this way, due to...
dervishmadwhirler Says:
Nov 19, 2008 - ... the incessant need for consumers, to feed the machine of overproduction and unnecessary 'products'. Nature is altered to sustain a short-sighted worldview of information-starved slaves.Produce is shipped out of out of poor countries whose starving populace isnt getting any of the best products. Destruction of forests is endangering our natural oxygen supply. Free market basically accounts for most narrowmindedness and pollution. Religion does the rest. Profit is parasitic use of resources.
dervishmadwhirler Says:
Nov 19, 2008 - basically; western, profit-based, free market-society is accountable for the ever increasing population growth. Capitalism and communism or any - ism for that matter wouldnt help anything to stop growth; work-ethics are destroying the freedom of people to be apart from polluting society. Governments are mindless homogenzizing engines producing an ever increasing population...
dervishmadwhirler Says:
Nov 19, 2008 - ...When nature is left intact and uncontrolled, there will be no extreme exponential population growth and no need for 'population control' or 'population reduction'. Industry is destroying the possibility for many many species to survive and contribute to the natural abundance. Basically; modern rural , elite ruled, industrial free market society is destroying the environment- and the worst thing is, it is because of greed. Free markets are only free for those who dominate the markets.
notaplasticyardie Says:
Nov 23, 2008 - It is sad that this 'expert' talked about a 'Lanchester' bomber' Sadder still that it was not just a mistake when speaking because his presentation slide also showed Lanchester. Americans, please note it was the 'Lancaster' bomber which carried so many brave airmen across Germany. That's LANCASTER. You can read all about it - just 'Google'. Seeing such a rudimentary error at the start of this speech meant there was no point watching further.
deelean Says:
Nov 23, 2008 - He's an American lol
Spooker112 Says:
Nov 26, 2008 - "american elite" If I hear that term again I am going to explode. How about somebody uses actually uses names. I used to laugh at you elitist, now it's just getting annoying.
dervishmadwhirler Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - Names? Just google "american elite", and oodles of names will pop up...
Spooker112 Says:
Dec 4, 2008 - I googled it, no names came up. just a bunch of companies. How about you google it and see for yourself. or you can just give me some names.
dervishmadwhirler Says:
Dec 6, 2008 - hmmm, your right...just give you a cupple of them then; the Hilton family, the Bush family, the Rothschild family, Bill Gates, and more of the american superrich. There is a large group opf them who are connected in more than one way, e.g. a lot of them are eugenicists. ;)
m1ke905 Says:
Dec 7, 2008 - why does the video take forever to load? ( I assure I do not have a slow PC, specs will be available upon request ) I am trying to watch it in HQ, all other vids load quickly, anyone else having the same problem?
techistory Says:
Dec 7, 2008 - Slides for this presentation are available for download or viewing on Slideshare Search for "Secret History of Silicon Valley." An updated version of this talk with a discussion of the rise of Venture Capital is on the Computer History Museum web site.
mightywind5888 Says:
Dec 19, 2008 - Sounds like the weak gazel complaining that he will be eaten by the lion. Survival of the fittest isn't man-made. Get quick, adapt, or die.
dervishmadwhirler Says:
Dec 19, 2008 - mightywind5888; I'll never adapt to a small-minded set of values. Nature won't adapt; it will retaliate, or it will die, and with it, the rest of life on Earth. Have fun adapting.
mightywind5888 Says:
Dec 19, 2008 - Right. Nature is probably going to die. 4.5 billion years, as far as we can tell, and she's on her last leg. Think outside your planet to the universe--unlimited resources, constant supply of solar energy, the ability for mankind to survive any earth disaster. Old mother nature can hold her own. We will continue to be the species that must adapt.
TheSweetwaterJones Says:
Dec 21, 2008 - It doesn't really prove anything. If there are six horses in a race, and you have enough money to put it on all of them, then why not? You'll get repaid by the winners and have the oppourtunity to press for reimbursement from the defeated. It's simply sound economics.
techfixer16888 Says:
Dec 26, 2008 - life hasn't been that cruel to us. atleast we are not dead. Enjoy what you have while you are here. Leave survival of the fittest to the animal world. Space travel, automation of mundane jobs, removal of the current monetary system of debt, better health care, google governance, there are plenty to look forward to, for those who can cope with the next 3 years. I don't believe carnegie institude was involved in eugenics, they gave my mother chinese translations of Dale's 2 best books for free.
techfixer16888 Says:
Dec 26, 2008 - haha sorry i made a mistake earlier. i knew dale carnegie's organisation could never be involved in eugenics. I was confusing andrew carnegies' institude with dale carnegies' intitude. they were distant cousin's that did not know of each other. There is something in IQ being hereditary I am sure, but that doesnt mean the less intellignet people has to die. if low IQ is something deserving of death, then the whole human race should have been wiped out during the stone ages.
Soulfree2008 Says:
Dec 27, 2008 - My god, I havent even watched the vid yet, but are there really this many mentally deficient people watching 1 hour of technical video??? will respond again upon completion... Im just in intellectual revulsion...! :/
Joannabombshell84 Says:
Jan 1, 2009 - Who wants a sexy cam show from a hottie that wants to get nude? _DATEHERWOW -DOT- COM_
Juju3322 Says:
Oct 30, 2008 - no whats that?