If technology is going to outgrow the existing manchild oligarchy, it has to leave Silicon Valley. It's impossible (for a critical mass of people, if not necessarily the individual) to be anything but The Man's bitch in a place where starter apartments top $3,500 per month and houses cost over $1 million.

Silicon Valley's a joke at this point. So where will the technologist's positive-sum impulse reconstitute itself? I have no fucking idea. It could be in Seattle, it could be in the Upper Midwest, and it could be in another part of the world. And who will fund the new way of doing things, one which will be more profitable (in the long term) and much more socially responsible, but less controllable by the people holding the pursestrings? Again, I honestly don't know.