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For how long? The situation sounds untenable. Better to spread the tech-industry all over the country and world in my not at all humble opinion.
by wavefunction 13y ago
For how long? The situation sounds untenable. Better to spread the tech-industry all over the country and world in my not at all humble opinion.
- rsync 13y agoNo. Economies of scale, network effects and (god willing) an end to sprawl-based development. By all means, if your career allows it, telecommute from anywhere you like - but nobody needs physical infrastructure and commute-endpoints spread evenly all over the land...
- nostrademons 13y agoSomebody needs to solve the out-of-sight-out-of-mind problem then. The technology already exists for easy videoconferencing (Hangouts/GVC), for easy screen-sharing (VNC), for easy code collaboration (GitHub), and for easy code reviews (Rietveld/Gerrit). The problem is that this isn't enough: many of the great ideas that the big tech companies are built on came out of small informal discussions in hallways, in cubes, or over dinner. Until you can hack human nature so that people will randomly say whatever just popped into their head to the avatar sitting next to them, there will still be a strong incentive for creative companies to colocate their employees.