How did Silicon Valley become the center of the tech universe? And where does Seattle rank as a tech hub? University of Washington history professor Margaret O'Mara, author of the book Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley, sits down with with the UW's Hanson Hosein to talk about those issues and more in the latest episode of Media Space.
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Margaret O'Mara is the author of Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005), which explored how Silicon Valley came to be, why other U.S. regions did not become Silicon Valley, and what the Cold War had to do with it. Her current research includes a study of high-tech globalization and urban change in China, India, and the United States. An Assistant Professor of History at the UW, she previously taught at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her PhD in 2002. From 1993 to 1997 she was a staff member to President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, handling policy issues including urban economic development, health care, and welfare reform.
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