The American Experience : Ford and Noyce

[PatsFan2003]

Has anyone watched the American Experience segments on Henry Ford and Robert Noyce?

One built the American Middle Class, the other Silicon Valley and our digital age.

I thought both were fantastic.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...lms/henryford/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...films/silicon/

[PatsFan2003]

Well this is a big NO. I would heartily recommend both. The next up is Rockefeller.

[duck]

Sounds like a bunch of gun-hating liberal BS to me.











Seriously, I'll try and catch this series. Looks interesting.

[PatsFan2003]

Actually a lot of the Noyce segment was all about the new model of entrepreneurship that the West and Silicon Valley started. You know all that Republican "We build it" stuff.

[AndromedaPatFan]

Actually a lot of the Noyce segment was all about the new model of entrepreneurship that the West and Silicon Valley started. You know all that Republican "We build it" stuff.

Silicon Valley has always been pretty mixed on the political spectrum. Better known examples include Carly Fiorina, Republican; Meg Whitman, Republican; John Doerr, Democrat. Sandy Kurtzig gushed about Jerry Brown so much in the 1980s I conjectured she was dating him. Larry Ellison seemed like a Democrat the last time we talked politics, but his public statements have shown him moving back and forth since then. Ray Lane seems like a Republican. The lesser known Terry Garnett is definitely a Republican, but everybody thinks he's an idiot anyway. :) There also are absolutely some "taxes are always bad" types.

Best summary is probably that it's capitalistic and socially liberal. And it has much less reason to be biased towards defense spending than it did some decades ago. There's skepticism toward big organizations of any kind, government or business alike.

[PatsFan2003]

Silicon Valley has always been pretty mixed on the political spectrum. Better known examples include Carly Fiorina, Republican; Meg Whitman, Republican; John Doerr, Democrat. Sandy Kurtzig gushed about Jerry Brown so much in the 1980s I conjectured she was dating him. Larry Ellison seemed like a Democrat the last time we talked politics, but his public statements have shown him moving back and forth since then. Ray Lane seems like a Republican. The lesser known Terry Garnett is definitely a Republican, but everybody thinks he's an idiot anyway. :) There also are absolutely some "taxes are always bad" types.

Best summary is probably that it's capitalistic and socially liberal. And it has much less reason to be biased towards defense spending than it did some decades ago. There's skepticism toward big organizations of any kind, government or business alike.

Yeah I'd agree with that. But extremely self driven capitialists in a way that Republicans should love. Again Noyce and his colleagues were the first to really spin off to create their own company.