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Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education

Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education

Audrey Watters

October 13, 2015
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  1. Technology Imperialism, the
    Californian Ideology, and the
    Future of Higher Education
    Audrey Watters
    ICDE 2015
    @audreywatters

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  2. “I love LA” — Randy Newman

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  3. “The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun
    was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is LA.” — Jack Kerouac

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  4. “I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.”
    — Elon Musk, co-founder of Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX

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  5. “The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley”
    — Fred Wilson, venture capitalist

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  6. Who controls the network?

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  7. “Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location”
    — Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn founder

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  8. “Move fast and break things” — Mark Zuckerberg

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  9. “Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic” — Norman Mailer

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  10. “I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful.
    Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
    — Andy Warhol

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  11. “Hollywood is in the perception business where you create
    layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley, it’s about taking
    away the layers to get to the substance.”
    — MC Hammer, rapper and tech investor

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  12. UC Berkeley: “a haven for communist sympathizers,
    protesters, and sex deviants” — Governor Ronald Reagan

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  14. “Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other
    place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you
    support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the
    world and/or get really stinking rich”
    — Michael Arrington, tech investor, founder of Techcrunch
    “That’s total BS” — me

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  15. “Software is eating the world.”
    — Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist

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