One of the leading causes to Detroit's failure in the automotive industry is because it could no longer compete with the manufacturing capabilities of car compa

One of the leading causes to Detroit's failure in the automotive industry is because it could no longer compete with the manufacturing capabilities of car companies abroad. If we want to determine whether Silicon Valley will last, I think we need to ask, what is the competitive advantage of Silicon Valley? And what would it take for SV to lose it's advantage? Perhaps what SV has which is unique is a disproportionally large tech infusion. Let me elaborate. Many large tech companies reside in SV and the Bay Area including Oracle, Apple, HP, Google and Intel. It could be argued that these companies are so large at this point that they have cultural effect on the surrounding communities. In tech right now, the largest competitive advantage is good engineers because almost everything else has become easy to obtain thanks to the internet. In order to compete with SV, you may need to duplicate the cultural effect that SV created, and that isn't happening anywhere else on the same level right now. Maybe there is hope in Chicago where students K-12 will start learning Computer Science as part of their core curriculum fairly soon.