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Rise of the New York Tech Scene
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The evening solidified some loose hypotheses that have been tumbling around my brain about the shifting geography of tech—not just in the migration of talent or funding ecosystems, but in the ways that New York’s distinct culture shapes its tech scene and the resulting technology it produces. These are technologists generally more inspired by the early democratic visions of computation —those of Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Ted Nelson, Seymour Papert, etc—and by the potential of human creativity than by the promise of unicorn market caps. Given its deep well of hardcore technical talent and the Stanford/Berkeley CS program pipeline, I expect San Francisco to maintain its position as the place where tech infrastructure is built and foundation models are trained.
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