Silicon Valley's been getting transplants since the 1860s. There's plenty of waves of immigrants before tech - the Gold Rush, Okies in the 1930s, WW2 GIs, the

Silicon Valley's been getting transplants since the 1860s. There's plenty of waves of immigrants before tech - the Gold Rush, Okies in the 1930s, WW2 GIs, the defense boom around Lockheed (which brought my father-in-law to the area; my wife is a Bay Area native), desktop software, and then finally the Internet. Just as Detroit had waves of migration from the 1700s - fur trading, Great Lakes trade, iron manufacturing, and then finally automobiles. I'm specifically picking Detroit from ~1895-1970 vs. Silicon Valley from ~1995-future because there's a similar dynamic at root. A single globally-relevant industry that's remaking society, and everybody pouring in to capitalize on this. Given similar root causes, it seems likely that their futures will be similar as well.