“once tech becomes mainstream outside the tech hotbeds” Precisely the opposite is happening. In the 1970s and 1980s there were huge numbers of computer program

“once tech becomes mainstream outside the tech hotbeds” Precisely the opposite is happening. In the 1970s and 1980s there were huge numbers of computer programming jobs in places like Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas and Wisconsin. These were attached to the USA’s vast industrial base. As the USA lost its factories, it also lost these programming jobs. As manufacturers sent more and more jobs overseas, these computer programming jobs also went overseas. Tech jobs did not begin their current pattern of concentration until the 1990s. The current situation, where so many of the jobs are in California or New York, is a new situation which is still taking shape.