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The Corbett Report Podcast

Episode 359 - The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know

The Corbett Report Podcast

The Corbett Report

Politics, News

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Once a sleepy farming region, Silicon Valley is now the hub of a global industry that is transforming the economy, shaping our political discourse, and changing the very nature of our society. So what happened? How did this remarkable change take place? Why is this area the epicenter of this transformation? Discover the dark secrets behind the real history of Silicon Valley and the Big Tech giants in this important edition of The Corbett Report.

Transcript

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Silicon Valley.

0:02.0

Nesseled in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, the valley is not just a geographical

0:09.6

location.

0:11.3

It's an idea.

0:13.0

an expression of the urge to digitize all the information in the world

0:17.0

and to database track and store that information.

0:20.0

And as we are now beginning to learn, the result of that digitization of everything is a world without privacy.

0:27.0

A world where our ability to participate in public debate is subject to the whims of big tech billionaires, a world where freedom

0:35.2

is a thing of the past and no one is outside the reach of Big Brother.

0:41.0

For many, this is just a happy coincidence for the intelligence agencies that are seeking to capture and store every detail about every moment of our lives.

0:50.0

It is just happenstance that the information industrial complex now has enough information to track our every move,

0:56.0

listen in on our every conversation, map our social networks, and, increasingly, predict our future plans.

1:04.0

It is just a series of random events that led to the world of today.

1:08.0

But what the masses do not know is that Silicon Valley has a very special history. One that explains

1:16.0

how we came to our current predicament and one that speaks to the future that we are

1:20.6

sleepwalking into. A future of total surveillance and total control

1:25.0

by the Big Tech billionaires and their shadowy backers.

1:29.0

These are the secrets of Silicon Valley.

1:33.0

What Big Tech doesn't want you to know.

1:36.0

You're tuned into the Corbett Report. Once known as the Valley of Hearts Delight, the Santa Clara Valley was a bucolic

1:49.2

agrarian area known for its mild climate and blooming fruit trees.

1:53.0

Until the 1960s, it was the largest fruit-producing and packing region in the world.

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