Will Covid kill Silicon Valley?
One of the biggest worries about working remotely is that’s it bad for creativity. Without the interactions enabled by physical proximity it is feared that workforces won’t generate the ideas on which innovation depends.
But perhaps Silicon Valley has become too close. These days, it’s less of a cluster and more of a blob. Genuinely creative thinking is being smothered by a conformist corporate culture. Certainly, the last ten years of tech has been noticeably less exciting than previous decades. We’re still getting the iterative improvements, but where are the world-changing new products? I’m afraid Alexa can’t answer that one.
