word to that! :)

I thought I was the only person around here who thought The Valley was overrated. I think its center-of-innovation days are behind it. Today it's more where things are marketed than where they are invented, and the major activity seems to be trying to get people to click ads.

I laugh sometimes at the popularity of things like transhumanism around the Valley. I hear a lot of talk like that, but see little action. Trying to get people to click ads is not going to enhance longevity or intelligence. Most of that work is going on elsewhere, such as at major medical institutes and universities.

Our family has been in SV since the 70's, and having grown up here and having heard stories and met people who lived through the decades here, I've sadly come to think that we were doing a better service to the world at large in the 80's than we are today.

On the good side, one reason I think the Valley is overrated today is that what the Valley was has gone airborne. I see more innovation in more places.

> Today it's more where things are marketed than where they are invented, and the major activity seems to be trying to get people to click ads.

It's where the money is. More deals get done on Sand Hill Road than anywhere else. But, it was never where things got invented. The transistor was invented in New Jersey and Shockley set up shop in silicon valley because land was so cheap.

Regarding your 2nd paragraph: That sounds true. What we need are science & engineering startups and AI/ML/robotics and some formal methods and crypto applied to those fields. Are you interested?