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September 12, 2016
“In 1968, the world’s high tech capital wasn’t just one city: all of America was high tech.
When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon–and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today our government is broken. Our nuclear bases still use floppy disks. Our newest fighter jets can’t even fly in the rain. And it would be kind to say the government’s software works poorly, because much of the time it doesn’t even work at all. That is a staggering decline for the country that completed the Manhattan project. We don’t accept such incompetence in Silicon Valley, and we must not accept it from our government. Instead of going to Mars, we have invaded the Middle East.” — Peter Thiel, 2016
Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 12, 2016 9:57 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.