1.Because black people do not conform to the stereotype popularized by the media.
Marc Hannah is one of the founders of Silicon Graphics Interface, manufacturers of the IRIX operating system.
Marc Hannah 1956-present
What he invented: 3-D graphics technology used in movies.
Why it matters: anyone impressed by special effects in the Jurassic Park, Terminator 2 and The Abyss movies should thank Chicago native Marc Hannah. The computer scientist was one of the founders, in 1982, of the software firm Silicon Graphics (now SGI), where the genius of special effects developed a technology of three-dimensional graphics that would be used in many Hollywood films.
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Silicon Valley has its roots among many "non-conformist" people. In the 1960s and 1970s, many followers of Sri Hans Ji Maharaj and Sri Prempal Rawat later joined the Software startups and became known as Computer Gurus.
They include the founders of Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Apple.
Black people were very few in the middle of Meditation Masters, in the 60s and 70s.
