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I have been hearing for 30 years that place X or place Y is the new Silicon Valley and will takeover from them. Silicon Valley hasn't been about manufacturing for 25 years or more. Globalization means the factories move offshore but the real brain power and creativity stays there.
Its about creativity. Its about software over hardware. The Valley attracts tens of thousands of technology specialists from all over the world every year. Silicon Valley attracts the best, brightest and most creative of Americans every year and hundreds of their university undergraduate and post graduate programs are linked in. Its that brain power and creativity that Shenzhen and other cities don't have and that they will not take over or be able to match for over 60 years, as basically that's how long ago Silicon Valley started with the Fairchild Semiconductor opened, with William Shockley having invented the transistor in the Bell Labs on the east coast just after the war, then led a team to invent a silicon semiconductor, basically the first silicon chip in San Jose.
The Chinese don't have the creativity and can't until their government takes off all their controls on the internet, facebook etc as well as personal controls over basic thinking different to the politburo. They might be good at writing software code to crack thru firewalls of international governments databases, there in Shenzhen and at Huawei labs there, but they have a long way to go to get close to those other cities trying to be Silicon Valley, let alone Silicon Valley itself.
Yes Cringley knows that the yanks wont be the world power they once were. He's a realist.
spot on
As you know I run businesses in Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Australia, US, India, UK and China. We work with wonderfully educated and experienced management and operating teams.
The technical skills in the developing nations is often HIGHER than Oz, UK and the US but the critical thinking, creativity and initiative needs generational change (or several generations of change).