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The Command Line — Audio-Video Edition
Episode 3 of the weekly Pattern Nexus audio-video series turns Part 3 of Cycles of Power into a shorter story about how Dartmouth, integrated circuits, ARPA, SAGE, Fairchild Semiconductor, Silicon Valley, and IBM built the first compute–defense–industrial command layer—and why today's AI–defense–cloud complex is its direct descendant.
Published Aug 25, 2026
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LifeLog Died. Facebook Launched. The Surveillance Internet Was Born.
DARPA’s LifeLog was publicly killed the same day Facebook launched. That does not automatically prove a covert handoff, but it does expose something larger: the post-9/11 state, Silicon Valley, venture capital, intelligence-linked technology, platform surveillance, PRISM, data brokers, Flock cameras, AI bots, and the dead internet shift all moved along the same structural rail. The story is not just whether DARPA built Facebook. The deeper story is how government surveillance incentives and commercial platform incentives converged into the same machine.
Published May 24, 2026
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The Command Line: How Cold War Compute, Early AI, and Silicon Valley’s Birth Turned Information Into Power (1956–1969)
From the Dartmouth AI workshop and the invention of the integrated circuit to ARPA, SAGE, and Fairchild Semiconductor, the late 1950s and 1960s quietly birthed the first compute–military–industry complex. This chapter tracks how information itself became a strategic asset — and why the AI boom of 2025–2035 is its direct descendant.
Published Dec 4, 2025