Silicon Valley has already attracted the attention of the world as a high-tech economic center since 1960, which lured other areas in the world to try to duplicate the distinctive industrial pattern of Silicon Valley. The first meaningful replication of Silicon Valley occurred in the mid of 1960. A batch of high-tech firms based on financial groups attempted to create a second Silicon Valley in New Jersey. Thus, they employed Stanford's dean of engineering and provost, Frederick Terman, who just retired. Frederick Terman is considered the father of Silicon Valley because of his nurturing of Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, and other high-tech firms, which is the main impetus of the generation of Silicon Valley around the Stanford campus. New Jersey has been an advanced high-tech center with numerous laboratories including RCA, Merek and Bell Labs with 725 companies when it tried to replicate Silicon Valley. However, companies had to hire employees from other districts owing to the shortage of well-known engineering universities even though they already had fifty thousand science and engineering elites. Government and firms in New Jersey believed that having more universities which do well in engineering like Stanford was the only solution, which was what Terman deemed as well. Terman drafted a plan, but it was difficult to put into practice mainly due to the incompatibility among those companies and laboratories. Moreover, Terman did another duplicate Silicon Valley trail in Dallas. And it turned out to be another failure for the same reason as in New Jersey. Hundreds of areas in the world desire to create another Silicon Valley, and those replications had already cost tens of billions of dollars. Unfortunately, miracles do no...
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Although San Francisco in the present is known as the tech industry and contains some of the largest tech companies all around the world, it has not always been this way. The tech vision insight is told best through a historical group of San Franciscan journalists and entrepreneurs called Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. In 1968, this network, according to Turner, was congregated by a group of people and publications who conjoined series of encounters between the San Franciscan bohemian culture, and the technology culture in Silicon Valley and published the document: The Whole Earth Catalog. In 1985, they held the WELL conference which was said to have been “one of the most influential computer conferencing system of the decade” (Turner, 2) The Whole Earth Catalog had the ‘ new communalists working together and turning away from politics but rather towards technology. During the 1970s, the “new communalists” world was peaceful and harmonical according to Turner “ If the American state deployed massive weapons systems in order to destroy faraway people, the New Communalists would deploy small-scale technologies- ranging from axes and hoes to amplifiers……. To bring people together and allow them to experience their common humanity.” (Turner, 3) This part of the counterculture that was involved with the technological world was influential in
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