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In March, the Justice Department filed a major antitrust complaint against Apple accusing the tech giant of maintaining a monopoly over the smartphone market. This is just the latest action the government has taken against Big Tech in recent years, marking a clear shift from the cozy relationship the industry long had with Washington. What’s behind the love/hate relationship between Big Tech and our government? And what can Silicon Valley’s past reveal about the way this might all play out going forward? In this archive episode, originally recorded in September 2021, Professor Margaret O’mara digs into the history of Silicon Valley – from its early beginnings to the days of the internet boom – to explain the Valley’s ever-present intersection with US politics and make sense of the recent shift.
For more of Margaret O’Mara’s work:
Read her most recent book The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.
Check out her prior book, Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
Find her prior opinion pieces about the tech industry in The New York Times
Episode 259: Countering the Spread of Misinformation
Episode 257: Supporting the Needs of Refugees
Episode 256: MLK's Contested legacy
Episode 255: The Year of Strikes
Episode 254: The Rise and Risks of AI
Episode 253: The Long History of Conservatorships
Episode 252: Ignoring Women's Pain
Episode 251: Segregation in our Schools
Episode 250: Climate, Health Care, and the IRS
Episode 249: Unhoused and Underserved
Episode 248: Fifty Years of Mass Incarceration
Episode 247: The Flurry of Anti-Trans Legislation
Episode 246: No Box to Check
Episode 245: Invisible Barriers in STEM Education
Episode 244: Avoiding a Cyber Catastrophe
Episode 243: Prison Cell or Recovery Center?
Episode 242: Midterm Trailblazers
Episode 241: In Search of a Home
Episode 240: Falling Through the Social Safety Net
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