The Secret History of Silicon Valley
5 人推荐 · 跨 5 个月 · 2008–2016
中文导读
Steve Blank 讲述二战、斯坦福大学 Frederick Terman 教授以及军情机构如何共同孕育了硅谷的诞生。讲座核心揭秘了冷战时期的电子战与信号情报研发如何埋下了如今硅谷科技产业的种子。
为什么 HN 推它
揭示硅谷真实起源的硬核秘史，每逢讨论现代科技产业背后的军工情报渊源时，HN 都会首推这场大开眼界的分享。
「这为那些‘隐藏在明处’的硅谷起源史提供了一个令人大开眼界的视角。」HN 网友原话：This is an eye opening perspective on some history "hidden in plain sight" of the origins of Silicon Valley.
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Steve Blank tells how World War II, Stanford's Frederick Terman and military and intelligence agencies shaped the rise of Silicon Valley. The talk centers on the Cold War electronic warfare and signals intelligence work that seeded the region's tech industry.
HN recommends it as an eye-opening, once-secret history of where Silicon Valley came from, and cites it whenever the military roots of tech come up.
HN 上的提及
This is an eye opening perspective on some history "hidden in plain sight" of the origins of Silicon Valley.
Ironically, according to Steve, the people who developed the above are responsible for Silicon Valley.
They were using signals bounced off of the moon to spy on Soviet equipment, and disguised the whole thing as radio astronomy!
absolutely brilliant and a must see.