Reagan deserves just as much credit as Gates and Jobs do for enabling high tech’s future. When Reagan won the Cold War, the defense industry no longer needed so many engineers and tech workers. So these engineers and tech workers went to work in software and computer hardware instead.
No, they didn’t.
The high-tech industries - Silicone Valley and the Silicone Forest - didn’t want them because they were too old. They wanted literally hundreds of thousands of newly degreed engineers from China and India.
I was laid off from the engineering department of a nuclear plant in early 1993. I remember hundreds of thousands of electrical engineers here, in the USA, who couldn’t get jobs yet lots of visas were requested by Microsoft and other firms.
President Bill Clinton, being the whore for political donations, would do anything for money. He screwed over the Americans looking for work. You bet those firms got their H1 visas!
First I've heard that Gates and Jobs and Woz and their employees were looking for defense work and couldn't find it. LOL!
How many yachts does your average defense worker own?
Defense workers happen because of G, J, and W, not the other way around!