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By 2005, Real Language-Processing Companies Existed in Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, and a Utah Suburb. Not One Was in Silicon Valley.
By 2005, real language-processing companies existed in Las Vegas, a Boston suburb, Pittsburgh, and a small city outside Salt Lake City -- not one of them in Silicon Valley. Each was funded independently, wherever it already existed, by capital chasing one urgent national need.
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Einstein's Theory Was Right in 1915. Proving It Took an Eclipse. AI's Version of the Same Wait Took Twenty-Six Years.
Einstein published general relativity in 1915 and predicted starlight would visibly bend near the sun -- a claim nothing on Earth could t...
Route 128 Had Three Times Silicon Valley's Tech Workforce in 1965. By 1975, Silicon Valley Had Already Pulled Ahead.
Economist Alfred Marshall described it in 1890 without fully explaining it: when an industry concentrates in one place, "the mysteries of...
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