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Silicon Valley will remain to the IT industry what Wall Street is for the commerce.

It is the peak, the absolute peak of humanity's IT pursuits.

I am not American, nor live in US and never been or worked in/for Silicon Valley and yet this is how I feel about it. Sure, there are good times and bad times but just like wallstreet has remained global champion of the commercial world, so will SV. I have zero doubts about it.

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This sounds like an article of faith.

Do you really want to have faith in a place that is likely ephemeral?

People once had this same degree of faith in the technology corridor of New Jersey.

> People once had this same degree of faith in the technology corridor of New Jersey.

Or a more sinister example: Detroit

>Silicon Valley will remain to the IT industry what Wall Street is for the commerce.

Yes, it will remain a metonym.

> I am not American, nor live in US and never been or worked in/for Silicon Valley and yet this is how I feel about it.

All that means is the area has done a good job of branding itself.

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