Silicon Valley was never just a war machine

What the source reports

Steven Levy challenges the idea that Silicon Valley always cared only about military profit. He draws on his own experience and talks with a writer and a historian. His account says defense money helped build computing. It also says people working in the field held real ideals about serving the public. Those forces can coexist. This is an argument about history, not a study that counts the weight of each force. It also does not clear today’s tech firms of responsibility. The point is to judge present military technology choices on their own terms. Neither a warm memory of early computing nor a claim that money ruled everything settles those choices.