Other challenges to SV’s preeminence are more fundamental than the tech diaspora

Re:Other challenges to SV’s preeminence are more fundamental... by barry-cotter on Sunday March 21, 2021 @02:09AM (#26528459)

> Silicon Valley has the critical mass of talent, VC money and greed that can't be replicated anywhere else in the world.

Tel Aviv has it. Beijing has it. SV’s big advantage over them is the internal market and Beijing will acquire that soon enough.

> There's a reason why we have never seen a world leading tech company come out from anywhere except the US.

True enough in software but see SAP. DeepMind was British, no? Give it time. Germany was the epicenter of the chemical industry before and to a large extent after WW1. It's still a big deal but Detroit is still a big deal in the automotive industry too.

> Despite having much higher educational standards even in 3rd world countries, the best the world could do is China which just stole US ideas and then built a firewall to keep others out.

There is no credible interpretation of this. In CS the US’ dominance in research is so great I’m not even sure what the best non-US university even is, perhaps ETH Zürich?

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Re:Other challenges to SV’s preeminence are more fundamental... by rapsey on Sunday March 21, 2021 @02:31AM (#26528536)

> Beijing will acquire that soon enough.

I very much doubt it. Israel and china have something in common like all rising powers do, strong nationalism. Foreigners getting funded before locals is I am sure completely unthinkable.

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