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“Techies tend to have strong feelings about immigration barriers (they’re against them), universal health care (for that), and environmentalism (a big deal). In their minds, there’s no industry more closely aligned with the quirky culture of San Francisco — so why now, after decades in the region, are they being attacked as interlopers from the wrong side of the ideological divide? The difference appears to be less one of substance than of style.” The Bay Area led the tech revolution. Are the apparent cracks in our culture a harbinger of things to come in other cities as well? The New Yorker’s Nathan Heller shares a letter from San Francisco: California Screaming.
+ We need to figure this out because the technology boom is just warming up. Today’s tech geniuses are just the beginners. The disintermediators will be disintermediated. Consider the rise of mobile. 128 million Americans no longer have a landline.