Tech industry (Silicon Valley, FAANG)

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🇬🇧 Tech industry (Silicon Valley, FAANG)

Silicon Valley = San Francisco Bay Area, Californien. Verdens største tech-hub.

Historie: Stanford University (Frederick Terman 1930'erne — "Father of Silicon Valley"), Hewlett-Packard (1939, første startup i området), Fairchild Semiconductor (1957) → Intel (1968).

Hippie-tech-fusion (1970'erne): Apple (Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak 1976). Personal computer-revolution. Berkeley FreeBSD, Stanford-forskning som grobund.

Web 1.0 (1990'erne): Netscape, Yahoo, Amazon (1994), eBay (1995), Google (1998). Dot-com bubble peak 2000, crash.

Web 2.0 (2000'erne): Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005), Twitter (2006), iPhone (2007 — revolutionerede mobile), Airbnb (2008), Uber (2009). FAANG = Facebook (Meta), Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google (Alphabet). Senere udvidet: MAMAA, FANGMAN — Microsoft, NVIDIA. Markedsværdi $10+ billioner samlet 2024.

Big Tech-kritik: monopol-bekymringer (US v. Google 2020-2024 antitrust-sag), overvågningskapitalisme (Shoshana Zuboff 2019), psykisk sundhedsproblemer hos teenagere (Jonathan Haidt The Anxious Generation 2024), valgmanipulation (Cambridge Analytica 2018).

EU-regulering: GDPR (2018), Digital Services Act (DSA, 2022), Digital Markets Act (DMA, 2022) — tackler "gatekeepers", AI Act (2024).

Andre tech-hubs: Seattle (Microsoft, Amazon), Austin (post-COVID), Boston (biotech), Tel Aviv (cybersecurity), Bangalore (outsourcing), Shenzhen (hardware).

Startup-kultur: Y Combinator (accelerator). VCs (Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, K

Læringsmål

• Redegøre for techindustriens udvikling med fokus på Silicon Valley
• Analysere FAANG-virksomheders forretningsmodeller
• Diskutere etiske konsekvenser af techindustriens vækst

Sådan kan du arbejde med emnet

• Discuss what makes a company like Google, Apple or Amazon so dominant in the tech industry
• Read an article about a tech company and summarize its main points in your own words
• Discuss the pros and cons of a few large tech companies having so much influence on daily life

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