If you're interested in more details about the government's early involvement check out steve blank's secret history of silicon valley. it's fascinating.

http://steveblank.com/secret-history/

These articles are accurate. Of course - can we also agree that the US Government post WW-2, coming off the largest war-time mobilization in history, is not the same government we have today?

To say that the government had a huge hand in silicon valley, and thus all government efforts to produce commerce and innovation are going to have equal results, confuses the issue. (not to mention the universities have changed too). Which I think is the point of most of these pieces.

I had to scroll down 7 comments (on the TC site) to find someone who wasn't pointing out inaccuracies in this article.

I question the author's integrity (Vitaly M. Golomb). I worked for one of his startups once briefly and was never paid. I was awarded a judgement but was unable to collect it.

Does it cost more money to teach math and science? Or are other factors at play? Education budgets may have been cut over the past few years but in real dollars, they are significantly larger than they were in the '50s, '60s, and even the '90s. So is willingness to spend a problem? Or are we spending on the wrong things?

I enjoyed Silicon Valley: A Five Part Series. Worth a shot if you are into these kinds of documentaries. http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/#!silicon-valley-film...

I learned that history through this video some time ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

Pretty terrible article as others have pointed out.

You can tell immediately by the quality of the statistics they attempt to sell the premise with, for example:

"95% of the world’s consumers live outside of the U.S."

And ~20% of the world's consumption by dollar value occurs in the U.S. It's likely 1/3 of the world's population won't be meaningful consumers in this century. The 95% number - based on population of all things - is entirely worthless.