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--></style></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="spike66@att.net" data-contactname="spike" class="clickable"><span title="spike66@att.net">spike</span><span class="detail"> <spike66@att.net></span></span> , 5/8/2014 10:32 PM:<br><blockquote class="mcnt mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="mcnt"><div class="mcntWordSection1"><p> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I am explaining to Isaac why this spot is ground zero for the entire electronics revolution, 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View:</span></p><p> <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50947659/Shockley%20lab/Explaining.jpg" target="_blank" title="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50947659/Shockley%20lab/Explaining.jpg">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50947659/Shockley%20lab/Explaining.jpg</a></p></div></div></blockquote></div>It is interesting what spots we find the beginnings of our era in. Behind my office, on the wall of the not-so-impressive Westgate shopping center is this plaque commemorating that Roger Bacon invented the experimental scientific method here: https://flic.kr/p/4sxh3P Over in Manchester they have a marker in the university area where the first civilian computer was built: https://flic.kr/p/t5P7z and not far away where the atom was split: https://flic.kr/p/4uckqE<br><br><div>(Of course, not all plaques commemorate big events: https://flic.kr/p/58dsNw and some are just philosophy in-jokes https://flic.kr/p/t5P7z )</div><br><div><blockquote class="mcnt mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="mcnt"><div class="mcntWordSection1"><p></p><p class="mcntMsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";"> There is a sketchy plan involves restoring the site as much as possible to its 1956 appearance and possibly building a structure above and around it to create a museum at the site. Parking is limited, so the investors would need to buy the property to the north of the lab for a parking structure. Saving this place in Mountain View will not be cheap, but there is money that thinks it is worth doing. I don’t know the current status of the project.</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>They better hurry before Walmart and the nearby developments reach it. <br><div></div><br><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</body></html>