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Dr. Strange and the Psychedelic Origins of the Future - Part Two
by Vincent Bridges In the early 1960s, before heading up into the mountains to La Honda, Ken Kesey lived near a quiet valley south of Stanford University. Back then it was known for its fruit orchards and was called the Valley of Heart’s Delight. It wouldn’t become Silicon Valley until 1971, and by then the radical evolution of the future was under way. But it all started, the future was truly groked and teased into manifestation, right there, amid the peaches and the apricots of Heart’s Delight. That somehow is comforting to contemplate… Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were depression era graduates of Stanford University when they pooled their resources in 1938 to build audio oscillators out of their garage in the valley. Their first customer was Walt Disney, who bought eight oscillators for his new movie Fantasia. Twenty years later, the area was full of new tech companies. In 1959, just as Kesey was discovering LSD up at Stanford, Robert Noyce, one of the founders of Fairchild Semiconductors, discovered a way to mass produce thousands of transistors on a single piece of silicon, inventing, along with Jack Kilby, the computer chip as we know it.
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