Noam Chomsky Quotes
Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.
Chomsky, Noam. Who Rules the World? Metropolitan Books, 2016.
This quotation is important because it illustrates the important research and development role that the Government has played for the most important technological innovations of the second half of the 20th century. Even though most of the computer breakthroughs were developed by private companies, the government paid for most of the R&D and purchased the vast majority of the first computers on the market when private companies had not yet realized the value of computers and with the exception of IBM most of the private sector would invest no money in this unproven technology. This was the same as the telegraph, the railroads and others before and the Internet and more afterward.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
