All we need now is a story about a hipster cephalopod that codes and wants to live forever in an offshore Libertarian colony and life would be complete.
I came pretty close to going to work at Lenkurt Electronics in San Carlos back in 1980, but fear and common sense prevailed and I went back to the mountains.
For all you tl/dr-ers, the nut graf of this (excellent) article about land use in the pedestrian-hostile suburban office "park" universe:
Silicon Valley is actually a century-long experiment in Military-Intelligence Capitalism, going back to 1912, when a Stanford graduate got a radio patent, started up the Federal Telegraph Corporation in Palo Alto, and immediately signed the U.S. Navy as a major client. The Pentagon and NASA and DARPA and the vast American intelligence octopus have all rewarded Silicon Valley with billions of dollars in contracts, year after year. Surveillance experts move seamlessly between the worlds of "private" Silicon Valley and the "government" back in D.C. and Langley and Silver Spring, and the FBI is active around the world enforcing the Valley's trademarks, patents and copyrights.
That Ken Layne guy…pretty good writer. He oughta have a blog.
Needz moar | tentacles. |
OK, two good articles.
Damn right.
All we need now is a story about a hipster cephalopod that codes and wants to live forever in an offshore Libertarian colony and life would be complete.
I came pretty close to going to work at Lenkurt Electronics in San Carlos back in 1980, but fear and common sense prevailed and I went back to the mountains.
For all you tl/dr-ers, the nut graf of this (excellent) article about land use in the pedestrian-hostile suburban office "park" universe:
That Ken Layne guy…pretty good writer. He oughta have a blog.
…the vast American intelligence octopus…
Oh so there *were* tentacles!
Not enough.
tg;dr
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