Thiel: ‘Our Gov’t Was Once High Tech ... Our Nuclear Bases Still Use Floppy Discs’

THIEL: "In 1968, the world high-tech capital was not just one city, all of America was high-tech. It is hard to remember this, but our government was once high-tech too. When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon. And it was the Armstrong from right here in Ohio — Neil Armstrong from right here in Ohio. Today our government is broken. Our nuclear bases still use floppy disks."