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E124 - The Making of Silicon Valley, Ep. 3 w/ Margaret O'Mara
American Prestige
English - November 28, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 594 ratingsPolitics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Danny and Derek welcome back to the pod Margaret O’Mara, historian and author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, to conclude the story tracing Silicon Valley’s rise until the 21st century. The discussion starts in the late 70s/early 80s and covers the rise of biotech and the personal computer, competition from Japan, government interventions like SEMATECH and the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (HPCA), the dot-com boom (and bust), and more.
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Be sure to grab a copy of the book! You can find Margaret’s other work at her website.
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