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		notacoward on Nov 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tim Berners-Lee says tech giants may have to be sp... Silicon Valley is not responsible for most of the world's innovation. Not even within tech. If the internet started any one place it was at BBN around Boston. The web started at CERN. Microprocessors started at Bell Labs and Texas Instruments. Cellular phones started at Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia. Amazon's up in Seattle, next door to Microsoft, and even Facebook is an import. SV isn't even a player in biotech, clean tech, materials science, etc. The cult of Silicon Valley is getting ridiculous.

JKCalhoun on Nov 1, 2018 [–]

You're not going back far enough though — personal computers, the transistor, microprocessor....

noir_lord on Nov 1, 2018 | | [–]

Liquid Crystal Displays at the university of a former fishing town in the north of the UK (my home town) [1].

[1] George William Gray - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Gray

notacoward on Nov 1, 2018 | | [–]

Um, I did mention Bell Labs (transistors) and TI (microprocessors). PC is a good addition, though.

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