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Throughout the world's history there have been cities that have captured the world's most productive people in one place. - Florence during the renaissance - Paris during the enlightenment - Silicon Valley during today's age of information
I thought that the internet, with social networks like Twitter, might be the next heir to the place where one can find the world's most innovative people. I'm starting to change my mind. You need trust to share important insights and nothing beats face-to-face for that.
Secondly, our "say the wrong thing and you're fired" cultural paradigm has stifled the free expression of innovative ideas. So, if it's not the internet, which cities are candidates for the next big innovative hotbed?
I'm sure Shenzhen will get some votes, but that's more about supply chains than it is about innovation.
I'd add New York City multiple times when finance was paramount. Tokyo had a moment in the 1980s, too.
Agree with you on Tokyo (but don't know enough about it), but NYC is still really powerful because of finance, which I'd argue is something different from the explosion of innovation we've seen in other cities.
In previous times, I wonder if this phenomenon resulted “organically” from culture, social, etc environment of a given city vs a city intentionally striving to become a certain type of place for innovation... Can it be engineered or does it have to be emergent to really work...
I wonder also, definitely worth studying.
In addition to trust i found that communication is much more effective in person. There's a lot of wastage from clearing up misunderstandings made over email or chat. I found face to face > phone > writing.
Agree, social media is still a distributed system, while it is very productive in terms of information discovery & distribution,it is also an inherently trust lacking system, much like crypto world is inherently filled with frauds of all kinds.
Kind of like 
now, it is inherently lacking the very
Biosphere (生物圈) of Silicon Valley type where capitalist & technological innovations can be fostered, grow & prosper.
In that sense, ‘s theft of western IP would be very hard to stop, even CCP wants 2 enforce phase1
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