The Toxic Technology of Silicon Valley

A prototype of California's dream, Silicon Valley, a country of rich and billionaires. This is a promise and a dream of technology. Mandel believes that "Silicon Valley joined the Pantheon of a mythological country - added for the first time in more than 50 years" (285). A Hewlett-Packard female engineer says: "When she moves here, there is an orchard, now there is an integrated circuit manufacturing plant, which I think is the most exciting moment in the history of the world.

In most cases, we think that technology is releasing us - we have purchased Silicon Valley's unique magnificent liberating myth from the past. But that myth is wrong. The ideology of Silicon Valley is now one of the most conservative belief systems in the world - we need to believe that profits are progressing. If we accept this myth and celebrate it, it further deceives us. If the world feels that it is going backwards - if you feel that history repeats itself - this is partly due to the reason that technology and innovation are no longer synonyms and no longer synonyms It is due to.

Regarding Silicon Valley, there are many things written about how the global capital of start-up and technology differs from other countries. In this article we will go back and forth between Silicon Valley, the Bay Area and San Francisco. Silicon Valley has more venture capital activities than anywhere in the world, its name and location are synonymous with innovation. Young and ambitious magnets have their own business culture, exporting and spreading to other parts of the world along with the technology they produce. The use of e-mail in business is an example of technical and cultural innovation that began in Silicon Valley and then spread elsewhere.

Silicon Valley is the Olympics for startup. In 2017, US venture capital firms invested over $ 8.4 billion, of which about 40% are from the San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco + Silicon Valley). However, since 2015, the number of victory capital winners has more than doubled, so the number of games in the first round has decreased and the average number of rounds has increased. As each subsequent wheel is lifted, the pole will always be high; it becomes increasingly unreachable. Let's solve this. Silicon Valley startups have the highest reputation in the world (intending to leave a Chinese entrepreneur scene for various discussions), but this investor is not because this investment is a foolish whale. . Technical talent (aka expensive) is hard to get, and if you can build a good team, its importance lies in its importance. Almost all major technology companies have their head office or outpost office here.