Secrets of Silicon Valley.

[Karl12]

Thought this was a pretty fascinating romp through the history of Silicon Valley and its Pentagon / alphabet agency connections - (D)ARPA's birthing of the internet is also covered.. as are the shady roots of 'popular' sites like Google and Facebook.





• The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn’t Want You to Know

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In fact, it would be more surprising to find a major Silicon Valley company that was not connected to the US military or to the US intelligence agencies one way or another. 

• Article excerpts:

The Information Industrial Complex


But how many people know the flip side of this coin, the one that demonstrates the pervasive government influence in shaping and directing these companies’ rise to success, and the companies’ efforts to aid the government in collecting data on its own citizens?

How many know, for instance, that Google has a publicly acknowledged relationship with the NSA? Or that a federal judge has ruled that the public does not have the right to know the details of that relationship? Or that Google Earth was originally the brainchild of Keyhole Inc., a company that was set up by the CIA’s own venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, using satellite data harvested from government Keyhole-class reconnaissance satellites? Or that the former CEO of In-Q-Tel, Gilman Louie, sat on the board of the National Venture Capital Association with Jim Breyer, head of Accel Partners, who provided $12 million of seed money for Facebook? Or that, in 1999, a back door for NSA access was discovered in Microsoft’s Windows operating system source code? Or that Apple founder Steve Jobs was granted security clearance by the Department of Defense for still-undisclosed reasons while heading Pixar in 1988, as was the former head of AT&T and numerous others in the tech industry?

The connections between the IT world and the government’s military and intelligence apparatus run deep. In fact, the development of the IT industry is intimately intertwined with the US Air Force, the Department of Defense and its various branches (including, famously, DARPA), and, of course, the CIA.

A cursory glance at the history of the rise of companies like Mitre Corporation, Oracle, and other household electronics and software firms should suffice to expose the extent of these relations and the existence of what we might dub an “information-industrial complex.”

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Specific links to further research can be found at the links and really wasn't that surprised to learn that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now the Chairman of the Pentagon’s DIB.. and is also on the Bilderberg steering committee.. and is also a member of the Trilateral Commission.

[Karl12]

Haven't read Yasha Levine's book 'Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet' yet but here he is discussing it.

"Today the counterinsurgency origins of the internet have been obscured. They’ve been lost for the most part. Very few histories even mention it, even in a little bit. But at the time that it was being created in the 1960s, the origins of the internet and the origins of this technology as a tool of surveillance and as a tool of control were very obvious to people back then".

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[Karl12]

Pretty tame but here's one employee describing the 'geo-fenced' future.

[Karl12]

It's looking more and more like AI has been created to enslave humanity under a totalitarian technocratic fascist state ..and not just created to make silly cat videos


"A deeply sinister approach"






After looking through the AI data centre stats then anyone out there who still thinks the powers that be give a single, solitary toss about the environment then I have some magic beans to sell you.

[ReturnofBroccoli]

It's looking more and more like AI has been created to enslave humanity under a totalitarian technocratic fascist state ..and not just created to make silly cat videos


"A deeply sinister approach"

[Video: https://youtu.be/vVa6h4WYlOw]



After looking through the AI data centre stats then anyone out there who still thinks the powers that be give a single, solitary toss about the environment then I have some magic beans to sell you.

He says in the first 5 minutes is that Beijing said the AI in the West is going to crash and burn because they have cheaper energy demands. My next question is, how are chinese energy demands looking now that the west has blockaded hormuz? Still at 1/6th the cost?

[Karl12]

Let me guess Brocholli ,- everything is fine and everyone is a conspiracy theorist?

[Karl12]

And you're the victim.

[chr0naut]

The truth is that most of the 'history' on places like Wikipedia, isn't exactly true. It's a rewriting of facts to appeal to the 'invented here' crowd.

Early computers were big, heavy, where many users shared access via terminals and it became an issue where one or two users were monopolizing the system, locking resources. So the concept of regulated timesharing of access was proposed in 1959 by Christopher Strachey, the professor of Computation at Oxford University in the UK. He did this at a UNESCO Information Processing conference in Paris.

Packet switching, the basis of the Internet, was invented by Paul Baran and published in 1960, by Rand Corporation in the US, where he worked. His idea was for packet switching of digitized voice packets via AM radio relays.

Despite claims that DARPA was involved, no-one in the USA did anything about the paper, or produced any tech or prototype from it, for years.

Five years later, British computer scientist Donald Davies at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK developed the concept for data communication using software switches in a high-speed computer network and coined the term packet switching. His work inspired numerous packet switching networks in the decade following. Davies proposed building a nationwide data network in the UK in a talk in 1966.

One early packet switching network was the French CYCLADES network which was up and running in 1973. The CYLADES network was the first one to coin the terms; "internetwork" and "Transmission Control Protocol" (TCP).

In May 1974 the Americans, Vint Cerf and Bob Khan publisd the official RFC 675 for TCP, but there was already a network up and running, using the same concepts and even nomenclature, before they did so. They could have come up with it entirely independently, but I doubt it.

ARPANET, which was an ARPA project, was up and running in 1977. It was 17 years after Baran's paper. That is more than 4 US Presidential terms.

It is clear that the usual guff linking DARPA to the modern internet protocol, is very peripheral.

[Karl12]

Two excellent speculative videos here expounding on the 'true' reasons for mass AI Data centre expansion.

As mentioned in the previous post it's painfully obvious nobody in charge gives a shit about environmental concerns and it's far more about enabling the oldest profession (slavery not prostitution).


Video 1:

https://youtu.be/TN3QG5ZgraI

Video 2:

https://youtu.be/gUH73FZmCcM




Some truly excellent points made in both videos but for those who 'know' the industry thought there was some great insight here exposing their 1948 magic bankster trick.






Cheers.