{"id":37009,"date":"2012-05-13T03:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T03:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-strangest-thing-about-silicon-valleys\/"},"modified":"2012-05-13T03:15:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T03:15:55","slug":"the-strangest-thing-about-silicon-valleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-strangest-thing-about-silicon-valleys\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The strangest thing about Silicon Valley\u2019s libertarian politics is how few people here recognize how the Internet came about. ARPANET, the earliest large-scale computer network that morphed into the Internet, was funded by the U.S. Defense Department, as was the research into fundamental technologies like packet switching and TCP\/IP. Delve deeper into the network and you get to the microprocessors that run the world\u2019s computers\u2014another technology that wouldn\u2019t have come about by loads of federal research grants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2012\/05\/12\/what-eduardo-saverin-owes-america-hint-nearly-everything\/\">What Eduardo Saverin owes America. (Hint: Nearly everything.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Military Keynesianism! MILITARY KEYNESIANISM EVERYWHERE!<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/dropouthangoutspaceout.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">dropouthangoutspaceout<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strangest thing about Silicon Valley\u2019s libertarian politics is how few people here recognize how the Internet came about. ARPANET, the earliest large-scale computer network that morphed into the Internet, was funded by the U.S. Defense Department, as was the research into fundamental technologies like packet switching and TCP\/IP. Delve deeper into the network and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9CV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}