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>> the mushrooming industry gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that there was this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. >> silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox park, and stanford university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. >> there was these two cultures, engineers with ph.d.s and hobbyists. >> it was a time when there was a lot of social ferment in and around the bay area. there was a lot of counterculture people. so you had cheap semiconductors. you had people that would ...

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Worked at intel. basically it was an observation that the computer engineers are getting to the point where they can essentially double the computing power of a computer chip every 18 months or so. >> and this was what really made the power of computers explode in the 1980s. because every 18 months these things were getting twice as good. >> you could basically get the whole computer on a chip. it was less expensive to manufacture. so you had smaller, which led to faster, which led to cheaper. >> under any other field of consumer products, things get more expensive over time. milk, gasoline, h...

Will be on the market next year. >> your first cell phones look like soviet army field telephones. they're just these huge lunch boxes you hold up to your head. >> this is just the birth of this industry. all inventions start out in a very rough state. whether it's computers or cell phones. it took a while to refine them and make them into something that all of us use. >> you look at the bottom of your screen, it says "please press return" or -- >> the computer has become a national mania, and we're told, miss the electronic boat and you're sunk. >> in the future, everything's probably going t...

If all goes according to plan, "columbia," this nation's first space shuttle, will fly like a skylark next march. >> if the shuttle program works the way it's been designed to, it will be a technological feat rivaling america's visit to the moon, a major moment in the history of flight. >> the space shuttle had new systems, new technology. the primary thing is the fly by wire system. which is you don't have pulleys and cables, it's all done by electronics. all the commands go through a computer. >> it was built as the world's first reusable spaceship, one that would commute to space carrying s...