Secret History of Silicon Valley

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  • [Recorded: November 20, 2008]
    Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled entrepreneurs. But it wasn't always so. Unbeknownst to even seasoned inhabitants, today's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency.
    In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship. Steve Blank shows how these groundbreaking early advances lead up to the high-octane, venture capital fueled Silicon Valley we know today.
    Catalog Number: 102695046
    Lot Number: X5082.2009
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  • @jimprice1959
    @jimprice1959 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What a great presentation. It covers the history of "Silicon Valley" of which most are unaware. I was a manufacturer's rep from 1965 to 2000. My customers included almost all of the microwave manufacturers-- Dalmo Victor, Litton, Lenkurt, California Microwave, HP, Watkins-Johnson, Avantek, Yigtek, among others, I've probably forgotten.

  • @johnburns4017
    @johnburns4017 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This presentation omits vital history. The Germans emulated what the British had in the Battle of Britain. In the great air battle of 15 September 1940 in the Battle of Britain, the Germans sent 400 fighters to escort about 100 bombers part of the way to London. RAF Fighter Command ordered into the air nearly 200 Spitfires and Hurricanes which swarmed high above London and Kent, attacking the poorly escorted bombers. Nearly 300 RAF fighter sorties were launched that day against German fighter escorts. This massive concentration of fighters, larger than anything ever previously displayed by the RAF, convinced the Luftwaffe that Fighter Command was far from being the beaten force that German intelligence was telling them. The sight of such a large fighter force, that *miraculously* intercepted the Luftwaffe everywhere it turned, shattered German hopes.
    Chain Home and the fighter control system, which neither of them the Germans had at the time, allowed outnumbered British fighters to turn up at the right time to intercept Luftwaffe raids time after time after time. The element of surprise gave the RAF men an advantage. German formations could be seen, and also their in-flight deviations, *in real time.* This was directed to the intercepting flights as they moved towards the deviating German formations, to accurately locate them springing surprise attacks.
    _“From the very beginning the British had an extraordinary advantage which we could never overcome throughout the war - radar and fighter control. For us and for our command this was a surprise, and a very bitter one. The British fighter was guided all the way from take-off to his correct position for an attack on the German formations. We had nothing of the kind.”_
    - Adolf Galland
    The RAF knew exactly where the Germans were and coming from, while the German knew nothing of the locations of RAF fighters. The Germans were relying on brute force in numbers. The RAF used intelligence and technology.
    The British were far more advanced in radar than the Germans, having types of radar sets the German never knew existed. German pilots were giving feedback that they were being intercepted on every flight in surprise attacks, so the British must advanced radar. German scientists refused to acknowledge this. British radar engineers in early August 1940 replaced several of the huge 350-foot fixed antenna arrays of the Chain Home network with a new, smaller, rotating antenna that was used for transmitting and receiving radar pulses - a technological marvel at the time. They also introduced a new superior type of radar scope, called a Plan Position Indicator (PPI). It gave a bird’s eye view from above, rather than the previous side-view presentation. This is what we now traditionally picture as being the typical radar screen. It was an astounding advance.
    It gave more close controlling of aircraft. The Ground Controlled Interception (GCI). GCI was brilliant for controlling fighters to intercept enemy aircraft, particularly during night interceptions. GCI surpassed the cumbersome filtering of information from visual sightings, sound, radar, etc, and the time-consuming plotting on situation maps. A GCI controller could actually “see” the aircraft as they flew across the countryside, rather than watching voiced plots being pushed across a map. By studying the PPI, the GCI controller could determine the positions of the German fighters, identified by the newly invented Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) technology. The GCI controller could provide timely radio code word instructions directly to the fighters to successfully conduct the interception. The ingenious GCI transformed the British radar system. It provided:
    *i)* a basic early warning capability;
    *ii)* a means for dependable air interception control.
    So, even as the battle was progressing the British were introducing new advanced technology in radar, improved air defence systems and improving the fighter planes. The Germans brought nothing new to the battle. They saw what the British did in defeating them, then did their own version.

  • @Margiana123
    @Margiana123 10 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Thank you for making this video. I had no idea that my Dad had been "heavily involved" in radar things in the late 1950s while a student at Harvard and probably other things out here also when Dave & Bill of HP brought him to HP in the very late 1950s. I'm trying to get him to talk with the Computer History Museum at some point.

  • @antigen4
    @antigen4 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    FASCINATING!! Thank you so much for posting this.

  • @1967DS21
    @1967DS21 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    AMAZING presentation

  • @johntomasik1555
    @johntomasik1555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video. Can't get enough of videos like this.

  • @bossdog1480
    @bossdog1480 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Very interesting. We were always told that the British were the ones with the radar and the Germans had none.

  • @wastaggio
    @wastaggio ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I thought there was going to be something about Townsend Brown, electro-gravitic coupling, the Hutchinson effect, micro-wave direct energy weapons and so on. There was non of that but still a good talk/presentation.

  • @DavidARosen
    @DavidARosen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You did an amazing job of bringing it all together and describing the genesis of one of the worlds greatest economic and technomic booms in the world. Thank you @steveblank.

  • @SIMKINETICS
    @SIMKINETICS 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I lived in Santa Clara Valley since '62, worked in engineering here since '66. Looking back, it seems like a time-warp! What a long, strange trip it's been!

    • @steamengineer100
      @steamengineer100 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi, can a person get your transmission system from anywhere yet?
      I am interested..

    • @slimshadus
      @slimshadus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@steamengineer100 apparently not lol

    • @jimprice1959
      @jimprice1959 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I too saw it change from the Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley to Silicon Valley.

  • @modularmoon
    @modularmoon 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    very informative! thanks for uploading this video, everyone should see this!

  • @keithammleter3824
    @keithammleter3824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    His introductory comments about the current generation of university engineering students view the world and think is spot on. Basically, they graduate from high school not knowing anything, uninformed, and too lazy to think. Since they are the same human race that their fathers and grandfathers were, the problem cannot be with the students. The problem must be a failure of the high school system and the training of school teachers. Today's generation of university students regard anything older than themselves as ancient history, and will not read textbooks published more than 15-20 years ago, regarding them as obsolete and probably wrong.

  • @cbread208
    @cbread208 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow, very informative! Well done, thank you.!

  • @johnnyzippo7109
    @johnnyzippo7109 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As an undergraduate of history with a degree in said field from the Ole War Skule , thank you for the lecture , very well done , very articulate . I enjoyed every second of this lecture , it lit my mind up like an old vacuum tube .

  • @sparkybluefox
    @sparkybluefox 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Bravo! This is a GREAT talk ! Over the top Awesome!
    Bravo!
    SBF

  • @gatorpika
    @gatorpika 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Really interesting talk. I met a guy that used to fly those ELINT missions in the 50s-60s recently at the Smithsonian. Based on what he said and reading his book later, that was a scary business.

    • @Jump-n-smash
      @Jump-n-smash 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can you tell us the title of the book? Thank you.

  • @kimholm4607
    @kimholm4607 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is excellent - should be an example in curriculum for senior graduates - it is important!

  • @senthilkumar5
    @senthilkumar5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sometimes we need to understand each and events in the history, that can give us better context.

  • @ChrisWindley
    @ChrisWindley 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating stuff - Thank you !!

  • @RandallFlaggNY
    @RandallFlaggNY ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the best videos I've ever seen on this site.

  • @yeaggermiester
    @yeaggermiester 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a fantastic video.

  • @CharlesThomaston
    @CharlesThomaston 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great presentation

  • @canyonproductions7683
    @canyonproductions7683 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am blown away by this.

  • @antigen4
    @antigen4 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    SUCH a great talk and subject - i knew nothing about this before seeing it - apparently most americans (nor british) had an idea either!

  • @mykillmielia5640
    @mykillmielia5640 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    44:00 critical part

  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great little primer.

  • @genericsomething
    @genericsomething 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My grandfather flew one of those B 24s with the radar. I'm lucky to be here.

  • @liftthathigher
    @liftthathigher 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm here because Jerry Garcia was talking about silicon valley and how it was already booming in the 60s so interesting I love American design until around 1998

  • @yuglesstube
    @yuglesstube 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent

  • @johnburns4017
    @johnburns4017 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The British had onboard radar in planes. The planes that sunk the Bismarck were equipped. They dived vertically down to the sea in cloud, then levelled out skimming the sea surprising the German AA gunners, making successful attacks.
    Admiral Cunningham's fleet that was seeking the Japanese fleet that attacked Ceylon in the Indian Ocean, had planes with onboard radar. If he had located the retreating Japanese fleet, his planes at night would have decimated the fleet - the same fleet that bombed Pearl Harbor. The Japanese fleet had no radar of any description. The two fleets did not meet. The Battle of Midway (the destruction of a Japanese fleet) could have been six months earlier.

  • @CookieFridays
    @CookieFridays 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I watched this randomly (very randomly, went from history of Pixar to history of Silicon Valley ha) yet found it quite interesting.

  • @youngpolen-a1579
    @youngpolen-a1579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the kind of stuff that make Hideo Kojima make Metal Gear.

  • @TheRuralpoet
    @TheRuralpoet 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Steve Blank represents the best of US academics. This is a good story which is also an important history lesson. He also gives each player on the stage their due, the US - Britain and Germany and doesn't fall into the trap of jingoism. As a Briton his intelligent take on history makes me feel like The US and Britain have a future kicking anus together.

    • @TyphoonUSSR
      @TyphoonUSSR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Russia's view of American jingoism is quite different. This gentleman began his speech with an outright lie, saying that the USSR and Germany attacked Poland, and so the war began. In fact, a year earlier, Poland, Germany and Hungary attacked Czechoslovakia, and thus the war began. Even Churchill, because of this, called Poland the hyena of Europe, and wished her the same fate as Czechoslovakia. And such a lie in everything that concerns historical facts. Just think about the fact that it was the United States that sent its B-52s and U-2s into the airspace of Russia affected by the war, and not Russia sent its planes to the well-fed United States, which earned money from this war. It was you who dropped two nuclear bombs on civilian cities in Japan without any military necessity. Russia defeated Japan in 2 weeks, but you fought with it for 4 years, and could not beat it. But no one here prefers to talk about these historical facts. This is American jingoism in its purest form, in which there is nothing but lies. We in Russia treat with irony those technical victories that you allegedly made during the Cold War over the USSR. I could go into the technical details of the confrontation, but my comment is already too long and negative for the TH-cam algorithms that censor this social network and protect the US population from inconvenient stories.

    • @robertstewart4953
      @robertstewart4953 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@TyphoonUSSRVery well said. Don't take the poison pill thinking the authoritarian state capitalists of USSR were any better though, hope you're not a tankie.

  • @4EverDubin
    @4EverDubin 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well, before that California along with mid-west has always been the hub for military R&D. But SV today solely started with those few from the company Fairchild who rebel against the conventional way of how companies at that time ran things in a hierarchy structure. That is where the transistor was put to good use simply by the ideas and minds of Noyce and the men with him.

  • @matsten
    @matsten 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great introduction . Would have loved to be a student of his plus Jonathan Haidt and Jordan Peterson.

    • @robertstewart4953
      @robertstewart4953 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      JORDAN PETERSON LOL...
      🐸 My grandmother brushed my face with her pubic hair in a dream 🐸
      Bro don't get too invested in the benzo addict that almost died from a sip of cider and cried on national TV in defense of incels.
      Also don't be like this lecturer and fanboy over the "amazing strength and power of the US military", the military industrial complex is and has been one of the greatest evils man has ever created.

  • @vito7pt
    @vito7pt 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    great stuff! didn't know that SV started due to war

  • @robertmccully2792
    @robertmccully2792 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Parents moved to Silicone Valley in 1960. Was farmland back then.

  • @hrhodes3
    @hrhodes3 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow I am an x Navy ET and this inspired me!!!

  • @DarkPrinceNH5570
    @DarkPrinceNH5570 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What this guy talks about. Is what Eisenhower gave a speech about on Jan. 17th 1961.
    This is just an example of "stuff". Not what you think.

  • @killyourtelllievision
    @killyourtelllievision 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is a huge eye opener for the AWAKE community in reenforcement of points to ponder and actually does a lot dot connecting not otherwise forthcoming

  • @CorwinLakin
    @CorwinLakin 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shudda been at this program--Docent @ CHM

  • @BarryDuttonSellsHomes
    @BarryDuttonSellsHomes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Deep dive of truth. Found this via the Corbett Report!! Give me Liberty.

  • @bestintentions6089
    @bestintentions6089 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is probably the most real bit of history that's been told.

  • @MichaelChernik-zf2fy
    @MichaelChernik-zf2fy 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    oday's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency.
    In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship.

  • @c.c.s.1102
    @c.c.s.1102 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I gasped when he revealed the director of the Harvard Radio Research Lab.

  • @dalxo
    @dalxo 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @Squeeonline You're wrong: wikipedia page> World_War_II 1) Now you refer to Soviets. Not seeing difference between Russia and Soviet Union is the same as no difference between current Germany and Nazi Germany. 2) Moreover, WW2 started by Germany on 1.9. -Soviets joined war later. Read carefully source you refer to. If Germany would not attack Poland, Soviet Union would hardly made invasion 3 weeks after German attack.

  • @giocmw
    @giocmw 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    by Steve Blank, giving background of Frederick Terman in WW II

    • @robertslugg8361
      @robertslugg8361 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Radio Engineers Handbook, aka, The Bible according to Terman

  • @dalxo
    @dalxo 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @kehmulke My question to you: When the WW2 started?
    a) Signing Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 21st August 1929?
    b) Signing Munich Pact on 30th September 1938 by UK, France, Italy and Germany?
    c) Invasion of Poland by Germany on 1st September 1939?
    d) Declarations of war on Germany by France and UK 3rd September 1939?
    e) Invasion of Poland by Soviets on 17th September 1939?
    f) Invasion of Germany to Czechia on 30th October 1938?
    g) Invasion of Hungary to Slovakia on 23rd March 1939?

    • @cart172
      @cart172 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For China, it started years before 1939 when the Japanese were already invading and killing.

  • @niSE7EN
    @niSE7EN 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you turn on the transcribe feature? I would like to watch this piece with captions.

  • @RobinEvans1234
    @RobinEvans1234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was interesting but the red scare nonsense about the Soviet threat had me laughing.

    • @RoyalKnightVIII
      @RoyalKnightVIII 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Indeed, the USSR was never planning to invade and was always on the defensive. The military knew this too
      See Operation Gladio

    • @irisamanda3922
      @irisamanda3922 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m sure that the majority of scientists creating this technocratic state had no clue they had been propagandized and working for the same people who funded the Nazi’s and the Bolsheviks. So I’m sure to them the red scare and fear of nuclear proliferation was very real.

  • @500Global
    @500Global 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    real interesting
    great
    tell me moar
    can you give more illustration?
    what should be the #1 take away from this vids?

  • @Wofly4
    @Wofly4 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It is interesting to note that as the motivation for innovative applications of science has moved from nationalism to profit, the demographics of the workforce has followed a similar course. General Electric now employs more foreign workers than US, and while its workforce expands, it's American workforce has been steadily declining.
    Similar stories exist for other leading US high tech firms.
    Will the global desire for profit ultimately erode nationalistic concerns over borders?

    • @johntomasik1555
      @johntomasik1555 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I never blame "the system". Each person makes their own choice what to do with their lives. Maybe Americans need to pick themselves up by their own bootstraps and become leaders once again? We've been falling down the ranks of academic performance by country. Meanwhile, our appetite for entertainment, recreational drug use, and money easily earned grows.
      Don't point the finger. Pull the thumb.

  • @avefreetimehaver5154
    @avefreetimehaver5154 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did he say 'trolling infrastructure' @7:17?

  • @hongyizhou1734
    @hongyizhou1734 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    regarding the last question - cold war with china will spur investment into the valley

  • @kehmulke
    @kehmulke 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @dalxo Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: On 21 August Stalin received assurance that Germany would approve secret protocols to the proposed non-aggression pact that would place half of Poland (border along the Vistula river), Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Bessarabia in the Soviets' sphere of influence. That night, Stalin replied that the Soviets were willing to sign the pact, and that he would receive Ribbentrop on 23 August. Wiki map illustrates well what USSR occupied later.

    • @gyeppmester
      @gyeppmester 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The first question arises. We talk all the time about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We repeat this after our European colleagues. Question: was this the only document signed by one of the European countries, then the Soviet Union, with fascist Germany? It turns out that this is not at all the case. I'll just list them with your permission.
      So, the Declaration on the Non-Use of Force between Germany and Poland. This is, in fact, the so-called Pilsudski-Hitler pact. Signed in 1934. In fact, this is a non-aggression pact.
      Then - the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935. Great Britain provided Hitler with the opportunity to have his own military fleet, which was essentially forbidden to him, or reduced to a minimum by the results of the First World War.
      Then the joint Anglo-German declaration of Chamberlain and Hitler, signed on September 30, 1938, agreed by them on the initiative of Chamberlain. It stated that "the signed Munich agreement, as well as the Anglo-German maritime agreement symbolize ..." and so on, and so on. The creation of a legal framework between the two states continued.
      That's not all. Franco-German Declaration signed on December 6, 1938 in Paris by the French and German Foreign Ministers Bonn and Ribbentrop.
      Finally, the agreement between the Republic of Lithuania and the German Reich, signed on March 22, 1939 in Berlin by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the same Ribbentop, stating that the Klaipeda Territory would again be reunited with the German Reich.
      And the Non-Aggression Pact between the German Reich and Latvia of June 7, 1939.
      Thus, the Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany was the last in a series of those signed by other European countries, as it were, interested in preserving peace in Europe. At the same time, I would like to note that the Soviet Union agreed to sign this document only after all possibilities were exhausted and all the proposals of the Soviet Union to create a unified security system, an anti-fascist coalition, in fact, in Europe were rejected

    • @TyphoonUSSR
      @TyphoonUSSR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The USSR did not occupy anything, it returned what was taken from it by Poland after 1917. But Poland, together with Germany, attacked Czechoslovakia and unleashed a war. Poland occupied the Teszyn region by introducing tanks along with Hitler. Then, in Poland, immediately after Kristallnacht, a parade was held and Hitler's envoy was invited to it to express his desire for a joint campaign against the USSR. However, Hitler only laughed at the Poles and a year later attacked his allies. Nobody supported Poland, because. a year earlier, she had attacked Czechoslovakia with Hitler. The whole world welcomed the USSR, which prevented Hitler from seizing the Russian territories that were occupied by Poland. This saved the lives of millions of Jews and Slavs, including Poles, who under Hitler in the Polish territories occupied by him participated in the mass extermination of Jews. In this matter, the Poles and Germans were at the same time and helped each other.

  • @mixxmexx
    @mixxmexx 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    epic

  • @richardvernon317
    @richardvernon317 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Werzburg the first GCI Radar!!!!! Bollocks. The RAF did it first with the Type 2 GCI radar in late 1940. They had 6 operational sites in early 1941, long before the German system was operational.

  • @sahhaf1234
    @sahhaf1234 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wish the presenter had written a book. Esp. on the earlier part of the story...

  • @dalxo
    @dalxo 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @kehmulke Munich Pact on 30th September 1938 where France, UK, Italy and Germany without Czechoslovakia agreed on: 1) Germany will occupy Czechia (started in Oct. 1938; 2) Poland will annex part of Czechia; 3) Hungary will annexe 1/3 of Slovakia including the capital; 4) Hungary will annex Carpathian Ruthenia; 5) Rest of Czechia and Slovakia become satellite stale ruled by Germany. After singing Chamberlain declared, that is is act of piece and was amazed by Hitler's great personality.

    • @gyeppmester
      @gyeppmester 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The first question arises. We talk all the time about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We repeat this after our European colleagues. Question: was this the only document signed by one of the European countries, then the Soviet Union, with fascist Germany? It turns out that this is not at all the case. I'll just list them with your permission.
      So, the Declaration on the Non-Use of Force between Germany and Poland. This is, in fact, the so-called Pilsudski-Hitler pact. Signed in 1934. In fact, this is a non-aggression pact.
      Then - the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935. Great Britain provided Hitler with the opportunity to have his own military fleet, which was essentially forbidden to him, or reduced to a minimum by the results of the First World War.
      Then the joint Anglo-German declaration of Chamberlain and Hitler, signed on September 30, 1938, agreed by them on the initiative of Chamberlain. It stated that "the signed Munich agreement, as well as the Anglo-German maritime agreement symbolize ..." and so on, and so on. The creation of a legal framework between the two states continued.
      That's not all. Franco-German Declaration signed on December 6, 1938 in Paris by the French and German Foreign Ministers Bonn and Ribbentrop.
      Finally, the agreement between the Republic of Lithuania and the German Reich, signed on March 22, 1939 in Berlin by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the same Ribbentop, stating that the Klaipeda Territory would again be reunited with the German Reich.
      And the Non-Aggression Pact between the German Reich and Latvia of June 7, 1939.
      Thus, the Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany was the last in a series of those signed by other European countries, as it were, interested in preserving peace in Europe. At the same time, I would like to note that the Soviet Union agreed to sign this document only after all possibilities were exhausted and all the proposals of the Soviet Union to create a unified security system, an anti-fascist coalition, in fact, in Europe were rejected

  • @kennethflorek8532
    @kennethflorek8532 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    You didn't listen to the presentation, so why comment? He gave the functions SV was working on and to what end they were used.

  • @vsaldanas
    @vsaldanas 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    it is so sad that, their is no more research and development jobs for young Americans anymore in the Silicon Valley:Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Mountain View.....All the High tech and Low tech jobs are in India and China now:(

  • @jasonmarin5634
    @jasonmarin5634 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Viva Santa Clara, MX

  • @sssbaraba
    @sssbaraba 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    20:25 length of the aluminum foil around 12 inches or 30cm

  • @ClarksonsinUSA
    @ClarksonsinUSA 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @DigitalStudent I will send you some info on Linux...The post would be to big for this forum...

  • @CSIXTY4
    @CSIXTY4 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's an exhibit on innovation in the Valley, but nothing this detailed.

  • @enricotigani8944
    @enricotigani8944 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    wasnt epson by HP?

  • @inf0stud
    @inf0stud 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    And we are all better off because of these new SV entrepreneurs? 24x7 always on work-life (100:1) balance.

  • @taistelutomaatti
    @taistelutomaatti 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    "attach" "annex", same thing.
    At least in the Soviet sense.

  • @alainportant6412
    @alainportant6412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    That noisy intro was totally uncalled for.

  • @okhabin
    @okhabin 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you so much. I'm gonna go to Stanford Univ. I'm serious.

  • @estmeta
    @estmeta 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    厉害

  • @MrKevMan
    @MrKevMan 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hes right. Do a search you will see 4 mounts with 2 engines each.

  • @CiscoZZZ-cs7ep
    @CiscoZZZ-cs7ep 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i live in santa clara

  • @apricotcomputers3943
    @apricotcomputers3943 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    TH-cam's Algorithm on suggestions is amazing... Only if it could be used for relationships😂

  • @Teekles
    @Teekles 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    himmelbett, not belt ... great presentation tho

  • @michaelmoser4537
    @michaelmoser4537 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    The command and control centers were called Himmelbett - canopy bed in German (not Himmelbelt) ; Another point that is not clear at all: if the AA system was so bad then why did the US Air force continue with its bombing raids during the day - wouldn't it have made more sense to bomb during the night instead?
    Also the wikipedia article on Kammhuber line says that large bomber streams were the most effective countermeasure - the network was designed to handle a few bombers but was just unable to handle a bomber stream consisting of of several hundred bombers. Otherwise this was a very interesting lecture.

    • @Leo2112Lion
      @Leo2112Lion 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd imagine that the US Airforce bomber force didn't go by day due to scheduling.
      The guy said that the British RAF was in lockstep agreement with US Air Force to raid the German grounds using specific parts of the day. Since America chose the day, we weren't allowed to join the Brits in the night or else the attacks would have been redundant, more likely to be stopped, and resulted in a worse concentration of casualties/unsuccessful bombers shot down - which would have ruined the Allied Powers morale. Also that, and the fact that we were originally limited when we joined the war so we had to follow British orders as seniors being their newer, weaker partner (ironic historical moment, but we're still bigger than them >_>)
      That's my thinking on that aspect. What's really amazing is how well-though out the Germans had gotten by '41-43 with their electronics. The Nazis were smart cookies :/

    • @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO
      @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thry bombed during the day and the night. Anyone who has researched WWII well would know this.

    • @KrisKringle2
      @KrisKringle2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Americans practiced precision bombing which required daylight bombers and allowed them to hit indivual (large) targets like railway rally yard, factories, etc. The British practiced indiscriminate area bombing to burn out the entire city, which could be done at night and reduced losses, but was considered a war crime. The British officer in charge of it, Bomber Harris, was controversial in Britian **during** the war.
      And as the lecturer says, individual night fighters got their own radar later in the war, not right at the beginning. The bomber stream couldn't overwhelm the large ground-based radar for general detection and location.

    • @Leo2112Lion
      @Leo2112Lion 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good points, good points. It's still cool though that because there was a massive demand for warfare electronics, it led to the rise and eventual longstanding success of Silicon Valley.
      Imagine if we never joined the war. Santa Clara would just be another normal, expensive place to live in California.

  • @kennethflorek8532
    @kennethflorek8532 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    You didn't listen. And he did tell you all the way through that it was going to connect.

  • @ClarksonsinUSA
    @ClarksonsinUSA 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Many adavances in tech have come out of US military funding..

  • @DarkPrinceNH5570
    @DarkPrinceNH5570 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    OSS should of formed it up. Brought people like me in... dropped 6 gliders all over Europe and stopped that and kept it covered up. 24 hour time hack before the airborne were dropped in. Or someone should of.

  • @jasontownesfrench6853
    @jasontownesfrench6853 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Is there another crisis that will restart the valley’s cycle of innovation?”
    say no more fam

    • @preciousmettlex
      @preciousmettlex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Financial crisis. Crypto. 👀

  • @dmitrilebedev8635
    @dmitrilebedev8635 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    38:05 "in WWII we could fly over Germany, but in the Cold War it was illegal, it was an act of war."
    42:40 "flying along and then inside the Soviet Union".
    So who was committing an act of war in the first place, huh?

    • @gyeppmester
      @gyeppmester 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The first question arises. We talk all the time about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. We repeat this after our European colleagues. Question: was this the only document signed by one of the European countries, then the Soviet Union, with fascist Germany? It turns out that this is not at all the case. I'll just list them with your permission.
      So, the Declaration on the Non-Use of Force between Germany and Poland. This is, in fact, the so-called Pilsudski-Hitler pact. Signed in 1934. In fact, this is a non-aggression pact.
      Then - the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935. Great Britain provided Hitler with the opportunity to have his own military fleet, which was essentially forbidden to him, or reduced to a minimum by the results of the First World War.
      Then the joint Anglo-German declaration of Chamberlain and Hitler, signed on September 30, 1938, agreed by them on the initiative of Chamberlain. It stated that "the signed Munich agreement, as well as the Anglo-German maritime agreement symbolize ..." and so on, and so on. The creation of a legal framework between the two states continued.
      That's not all. Franco-German Declaration signed on December 6, 1938 in Paris by the French and German Foreign Ministers Bonn and Ribbentrop.
      Finally, the agreement between the Republic of Lithuania and the German Reich, signed on March 22, 1939 in Berlin by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the same Ribbentop, stating that the Klaipeda Territory would again be reunited with the German Reich.
      And the Non-Aggression Pact between the German Reich and Latvia of June 7, 1939.
      Thus, the Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany was the last in a series of those signed by other European countries, as it were, interested in preserving peace in Europe. At the same time, I would like to note that the Soviet Union agreed to sign this document only after all possibilities were exhausted and all the proposals of the Soviet Union to create a unified security system, an anti-fascist coalition, in fact, in Europe were rejected

    • @TyphoonUSSR
      @TyphoonUSSR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Namaste Bois If Soviet Russia (USSR) is dead, why is there still a NATO military bloc that attacks European countries and turns them into dust (Yugoslavia).

  • @rgfrw
    @rgfrw 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The 1st 55 minutes had nothing about Silicon! Only until Shockley came on the scene. And you have Shockley's career backward. He didnt work on radar during the war and just happened to invent the transistor. He invented the transistor and just happened to work on radar during the war!

  • @zootius
    @zootius 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent presentation, but please - learn how to use apostrophes!

  • @KnightOnBaldMountain
    @KnightOnBaldMountain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Like nearly every lecture I try to listen to on this platform the audio sucks. You’d think that intellectual venues would have the smarts to hire a good sound guy. At least hire an intern with the necessary skills.

  • @Humpinnaples
    @Humpinnaples 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I enjoyed the video... I lost interest a little bit around the 39:10 mark when he said the B-52 was a 4 engine bomber... Everyone knows the B-52 has 8 engines...

    • @youreale
      @youreale 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Humpinnaples I think this is fair enough since he told the audience in advance that something he was about to say could be wrong. Overrall, a very inspiring presentation, IMHO.

    • @enoadams1005
      @enoadams1005 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Blank merely compared B-52 during WWII 'like a four engine plane' he said, but not a "4-engine bomber"

  • @tatarqa
    @tatarqa 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    whistles were attached on bombs because of their psychological effect (for people on the ground)

    • @dauntoldrnodgroot3437
      @dauntoldrnodgroot3437 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah worry about mental issues while getting obliterated 😑

  • @EddieKMusic
    @EddieKMusic 12 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This video is most popular with:
    Gender Age
    Male 45-54
    Male 35-44
    Male 55-64
    What?...
    I'm 15 years old and today I already watched like 3 hours of these videos while programming with C++ lol
    I love this kind of stuff

    • @dmacpher
      @dmacpher 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      To think you’re almost 30 now 😂

    • @EddieKMusic
      @EddieKMusic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@dmacpher ... :D

    • @EddieKMusic
      @EddieKMusic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@dmacpher Yeah… Time flies…

    • @user-fj5ts6sz1f
      @user-fj5ts6sz1f 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ⁠​⁠@@EddieKMusicI’m 16 and I enjoyed this video!

    • @EddieKMusic
      @EddieKMusic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-fj5ts6sz1f Damn... 12 years, and I'm still developing

  • @DarkPrinceNH5570
    @DarkPrinceNH5570 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think its like that for alot of countries but whats the spending budget for usa?
    More than 50% goes into military right?

  • @ILykToDoDuhDrifting
    @ILykToDoDuhDrifting 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    not a single thing about silicon valley was said, only vague implications that .... radars were designed in SV? and radars are useful in warfare...

  • @DarkPrinceNH5570
    @DarkPrinceNH5570 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im glad he likes to talk about this stuff. Not sure where at in the ranking they are at but high enough in that area.
    What does YALE say about this? LOL

  • @jakubjodlowski916
    @jakubjodlowski916 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    so damn interesting

  • @joach0412
    @joach0412 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Steve Jobs, Steve Woz.... Steve Blank?

  • @DigitalStudent
    @DigitalStudent 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    How is Linux American?

  • @SuperGreatSphinx
    @SuperGreatSphinx 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ASCLEPIUS

  • @DarkPrinceNH5570
    @DarkPrinceNH5570 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You wouldnt even know where to begin to fix a "society" (notice how I said society, not economy). So tell me son, what would you do?

    • @Ayavias
      @Ayavias 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How do you change macro-level? Start micro🙃 I can explain this EASILY. Eould take me 4 hours or so I bet but I can do this

  • @axlebain3689
    @axlebain3689 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Proud , Murikans?

  •  10 ปีที่แล้ว

    History very interesting about Silicon Valley that I don´t now

  • @MrUltraworld
    @MrUltraworld 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's a toxic waste dump.

  • @psycleen
    @psycleen 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    no secret anymoore

  • @DarkPrinceNH5570
    @DarkPrinceNH5570 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Pharaoh was here.
    AND HE APPROVES OF THIS VID.