Margaret O'Mara
Margaret O'Mara
Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History, University of Washington
Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History, University of Washington
"What History Can Tell Us About Silicon Valley's Future," State of the Valley Summit, February 2020
"Silicon Valley doesn't understand its own history," Recode/Decode with Kara Swisher, December 2019
"The Code: business secrets from Silicon Valley," Web Summit, November 2019
"Q&A," CSPAN, September 2019
"The Code," MSNBC Morning Joe, July 2019
"Silicon Politics," San Jose State University, October 2018
"How Tech Makes History," GeekWire Summit, October 2017
"Was 2016 a Pivotal Election?" PBS American Forum, November 2016
"The War Room Comes to Washington: Clinton's First Year," Miller Center for Public Affairs, October 2016
"Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections that Shaped the Twentieth Century," National Archives, Washington DC, November 2015
"The Entrepreneurial City," CASBS Summit: The City, Stanford University, November 2014
"Q&A: Margaret O'Mara on the History of Innovation and What Makes a Tech Hub Tick," Geekwire Radio, April 2014
"The Next Silicon Valley," Mediaspace, November 2010
I comment on tech, politics, cities, and history to a variety of US and international media outlets. Some examples:
"Everything Is Innovative When You Ignore the Past," Vice, March 2020
"Why Silicon Valley and big tech don't innovate anymore," The Atlantic, January 2020
"Can Donald Trump Win Reelection in 2020?" Fortune, January 2020
"From Sputnik to Brexit: the case for public research spending," The Financial Times, December 2019
"A Decade of Promise and Peril," Silicon Valley Business Journal, December 2019
"L'armée a joué un rôle central dans la Silicon Valley," Les Echoes, August 2019
"Silicon Valley's Journey from Obscurity to Global Powerhouse," KCRW Press Play, August 2019
"Why we need history majors to understand our future," Crosscut, April 2019
"How does this year's wave of IPOs compare to 1999's?" Marketplace, April 2019
"Amazon's Hard Bargain Extends Far Beyond New York," The New York Times, March 2019
"Real Estate Brokers Despair Over Amazon's Abrupt Reversal," Bloomberg Businessweek, March 2019
"The End of Privacy," Future Tense, ABC Radio (Australia), February 2019
"Boomtown Seattle," The Seattle Times, February 2018
"Jeff Bezos, Mr. Amazon, Steps Out," The New York Times, January 2018
"How Steve Case Became Washington's Tech Whisperer," Politico, June 2017
"How America's Two Tech Hubs are Converging," The Economist, May 2017
