My knee jerk reaction is to dismiss this.
But in the 60s Detroit was the tech capital of America and California was for movie stars, beatniks, and farmers.
But in the 60s Detroit was the tech capital of America and California was for movie stars, beatniks, and farmers.
By the 60s, northern california was already a tech hub. Stanford university was around for nearly a century by then and initial inventment in silicon valley was already decades old as was the JPL. Also, nyc-metro was the tech capitabl back then. Bell labs was located right outside of nyc for a reason.