Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule

https://medium.com/backchannel/why-silicon-valley-will-continue-to-rule-c0cbb441e22f

The historical, cultural and economic context described here sums up why
efforts to replicate 'the valley' in other countries, other places,
according to governmental whims, never happens, never works, never will.

People around the world have tried to reproduce Silicon Valley. No one
has succeeded.

And no one will succeed because no place else — including Silicon Valley
itself in its 2015 incarnation — could ever reproduce the unique
concoction of academic research, technology, countercultural ideals and
a California-specific type of Gold Rush reputation that attracts people
with a high tolerance for risk and very little to lose. Partially
through the passage of time, partially through deliberate effort by some
entrepreneurs who tried to “give back” and others who tried to make a
buck, this culture has become self-perpetuating.

See also

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_next_silicon_valley/2013/12/all_the_next_silicon_valleys_a_world_map_of_aspiring_tech_hubs.html

and

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/torontos-transformation-to-silicon-valley-north/article1211610/

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