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Ask HN: How would you build the next Silicon Valley?

inodeman
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I am from Mexico, I have promoted technology for the last 20 years and I intend to do it for the next 20 or so. I want to know in your opinion what are the steps

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Bender
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Silicon Valley as in the early tech industry was created out of necessity and funding from the analysis of World War 2. [1] So I suppose the next steps would be to learn about World War 2 and repeat the learning process before, during and after World War 3 with some adaptations of course to fill the tech gaps.

While this has already been done a bunch of times one would also want to put together a think tank consisting of people form the Department of Defense, the defense industry, intelligence community, academia specifically Stanford SRI and Harvard, financial analysts from In-Q-Tel, existing think tanks. I am intentionally leaving out some groups and commissions.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY [video][44 mins][documentary]

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