Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Driving Jobs Growth
by laotzu on Friday December 04, 2015 @05:40PM
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>silicon valley doesn't produce much hardware (evidence for this being true? obviously we hear a ton about software, but what about tesla, intel, nest, apple, google, etc?)
Consider the amount of hardware that a modern smart phone replaces such as the calculator, phone, video camera, television, radio, clock...
They are producing less hardware because hardware is becoming increasingly integrated as software:
>The hardware world tends to move into software form at the speed of light.
-Marshall McLuhan
* silicon valley doesn't produce much hardware (evidence for this being true? obviously we hear a ton about software, but what about tesla, intel, nest, apple, google, etc?)
* businesses such as social networking, personal assistance services, short-term house rental services, and other saas have questionable customer value (why?)
* there will be an implosion of these saas businesses (why?)