4-2-18

innovation and entrepreneurship

Bob Taylor:

ARPA: Advanced Reseach Projects Agency
military support for research after WWII
history of computers

the idea of networked computers was radical
it took a person with a vision to shepherd it through the system and make it happen

Al Acorn:
the odd connections between students opposed to the war and Silicon Valley electronics companies, which were a place to get a co-op job