Dave Winer on the Silicon Valley
Dave Winer probably created a slight decrease in the number of participants to the US Green Card Lottery, breaking a few myth about Silicon Valley.
The truth is that the people of Silicon Valley toil to find security in money, never getting there, while avoiding the pleasures of life, including the mythological creativity, spinning on a treadmill, doing nothing but striving to make money, but it’s never enough.
“Here, the top 1 percent chases the top one-tenth of 1 percent, and the top one-tenth of 1 percent chases the top one-one-hundredth of 1 percent.”
My own partial and subjective experience was that the valley itself (Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc..) is a social desert. Buildings separated by long and deprecated roads (it seems the infrastructures haven’t been refreshed since the 60s). But there is still something special, and the concentration of people and companies makes it a must for most young (and ambitious) entrepreneurs.
It is maybe time to move the valley somewhere else, just like the Koreans are moving their capital to a completely new site?
