CHM Live | The Big Score: Silicon Valley From the Beginning
Вставка
- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- [Recorded July 21, 2021]
Over the past five decades, the tech industry has grown into one of the most important sectors of the global economy, and Silicon Valley--replete with sprawling office parks, sky-high rents, and countless self-made millionaires--is home to many of its key players. But the origins of Silicon Valley and the tech sector are much humbler. At a time when tech companies' influence continues to grow, The Big Score chronicles how they began.
One of the first reporters on the tech industry beat at the San Jose Mercury News, Michael S. Malone recounts the feverish efforts of young technologists and entrepreneurs to build something that would change the world--and score them a big payday.
Starting with the birth of Hewlett-Packard in the 1930s, Malone illustrates how decades of technological innovation laid the foundation for the meteoric rise of the Valley in the 1970s. Drawing on exclusive, unvarnished interviews, Malone punctuates this history with incisive profiles of tech’s early luminaries--including Nobel Prize winner William Shockley and Apple's Steve Jobs--when they were struggling entrepreneurs working 18-hour days in their garages. And he plunges us into the darker side of the Valley, where espionage, drugs, hellish working conditions, and shocking betrayals shaped the paths for winners and losers in a booming industry.
A decades-long story with individual sacrifice, ingenuity, and big money at its core, The Big Score recounts the history of today's most dynamic sector through its upstart beginnings.
Join us as Michael Malone sits down with NBC technology and business reporter Scott Budman to discuss the companies and personalities that built Silicon Valley and to explore connections between the Valley’s history with its pressing issues today and future trajectory.
Catalog Number: 102792261
Lot Number: X9506.2021
Interview with Michael Malone starts at 5:49.
Computers (microprocessors) becoming embedded in everything these days is following the same path as motors. I recall The Henry Ford Museum showing how old factories used to have one huge motor with a shaft drive many machines via a belt. Just like timesharing was on a mainframe. As technology improved and costs dropped motors could then be embedded in individual machines.
It was encouraging to hear Michael Malone support the First Amendment and not want a small group of individuals to determine what is "true" and control speech. We see this behavior infecting scientists and there will be disastrous consequences for nations that limit science and debate. The best first step in breaking up the logjam in big tech limiting free speech is to remove CDA Section 230 protections, which will open up the floodgates allowing victims to sue these companies. Breaking them up can come later and if enough lawsuits are filed, there may not be any companies to break up.
This interview was on CSPAN's BookTV, but is abruptly cutoff during the Japan vs Silicon Valley chip quality discussion.