The secret history of Silicon Valley
This video, via Google Tech Talks, looks interesting, if a little conspiracy-theoretical:
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.
And why does Google always disable embedding of the YouTube videos of their tech talks?!
