[ExI] goodbye shockley lab

spike spike66 at att.net
Mon Apr 27 14:55:28 UTC 2015


>... On Behalf Of BillK
Subject: Re: [ExI] goodbye shockley lab

On 27 April 2015 at 07:23, John Grigg  wrote:
>>... Spike, why didn't the tech titans of Silicon Valley buy and preserve
the site?
> Do they have no sense of history?


>...Possibly because in later life Shockley became unpopular because of his
support for eugenics and race...BillK
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Universal consensus agrees Shockley was an asshole.  However the importance
of that building transcends that.  Shockley wasn't the only one working
there.

spike




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