How Government Spooks Are Making Bank In Silicon Valley
As much as Silicon Valley's techno-libertarians would like to believe that they discovered the first semiconductors buried in the California wilderness, the relationship between Big Government and the nation's tech capital is long, complicated, and well-documented. The internet itself was a military research project, and government R&D funding has pushed along technologies ranging from GPS to Siri. Tech companies have made a fortune off government contracts, and intelligence agencies have even unleashed their own personal venture capital firms to invest in tech startups and recruit top tech talent to help mine through mountains of surveillance data. But recently, the revolving door of the Military-Information Complex has started to swing both ways.
http://raidersnewsupdate.com/
As much as Silicon Valley's techno-libertarians would like to believe that they discovered the first semiconductors buried in the California wilderness, the relationship between Big Government and the nation's tech capital is long, complicated, and well-documented. The internet itself was a military research project, and government R&D funding has pushed along technologies ranging from GPS to Siri. Tech companies have made a fortune off government contracts, and intelligence agencies have even unleashed their own personal venture capital firms to invest in tech startups and recruit top tech talent to help mine through mountains of surveillance data.
http://raidersnewsupdate.com/
Forthtell: Full Spectrum Analysishttp://forthtell.blogspot.com/2011/12/full-spectrum-analysis.html
No comments:
Post a Comment