I looked at the article for more of its arguments. (I also wondered whether it mentions, such as in a matching ending, that we're no longer drawn so much to Florence in particular. It doesn't.)
Near the end, there's an explicit mention of Donald Trump: we need more immigrants and stuff. We also can use more "government largesse" with more "state spending for public universities," "funding for basic research."
One more passage: "A more even distribution of wealth may be one result [of the decreasing need for people to work physically together], greater diversity of thought another. The Valley does many things remarkably well, but it comes dangerously close to being a monoculture of white male nerds. Companies founded by women received just 2% of the funding doled out by venture capitalists last year."
Here I'm reminded of the recent attention to things like gender diversity, mainly from the left, and to political diversity, mainly from the right. If Silicon Valley were more notoriously conservative, we'd see a lot more complaints in our Centrist Media about those "white male Nerds."
One more passage: “A more even distribution of wealth may be one result [of the decreasing need for people to work physically together], greater diversity of thought another. The Valley does many things remarkably well, but it comes dangerously close to being a monoculture of white male nerds. Companies founded by women received just 2% of the funding doled out by venture capitalists last year.”
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Why don’t they complain about women dominating healthcare, or how 60% of university students are female?