Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. America’s adversaries understand this.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
We just held our second session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Class 2: Some of the pre-class reading included watching the Secret History of Silicon Valley and reading selected chapters of Max Boot’s book, War Made New. The Technology-to-Weapons-Cycle.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
We just held our second session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Class 2: Some of the pre-class reading included watching the Secret History of Silicon Valley and reading selected chapters of Max Boot’s book, War Made New. The Technology-to-Weapons-Cycle.
Steve Blank
JULY 29, 2016
The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. And they have been selling these systems to other countries (Iran, Syria, Egypt, etc.). Today, China can do this in the Pacific and to a limited extent, Iran has this capability in the Persian Gulf.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 9, 2013
The world still has economic challenges that often aren’t perceived by many of us the tech world in our little cocoons of Silicon Valley, NYC or Los Angeles. I believe the natural success to that is Twitter more than any other technology of our generation. Prices down. Network Up. But what else? It is open and empowering.
www.usatoday.com
JULY 16, 2012
Technology Live. Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Game Hunters.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military.
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