No big secret sauce helped the Bay Area to become what's today. What country governors can do?
Deregulation and tech-friendly tax policies, lobbied for and especially benefiting computer hardware and software companies and their investors, helped the Valley grow large; ongoing public investments in research and education trained and subsidized the next generation of high-tech innovators.
”When the government-built Internet finally opened up to commercial activity at the start of the 1990s, both Democratic and Republican politicians agreed that regulation should be minimal, with companies largely policing themselves when it came to things like user privacy.”
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”When the government-built Internet finally opened up to commercial activity at the start of the 1990s, both Democratic and Republican politicians agreed that regulation should be minimal, with companies largely policing themselves when it came to things like user privacy.”