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You realize you are posting this using about 99% tech developed in the valley, right?

I like the idea. Not sure if it will fly or not -- after all, once you've read one nerd-takes-the-world story, you've read them all. But we could do with a new genre.

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I didn't realize Bell Labs (Unix), Microsoft (Widndows), CERN (HTTP), and DARPA (TCP/IP) were based out of Silicon Valley.

He meant the really important ones like twitter and facebook and the other oft over-praised SV "tech".

Don't forget Flooz

What... Chrome and a Macbook?

Yeah, that's certainly 99% of the tech necessary for me to be posting this.

As the norm, my comments were read too literally. The topic for this thread was the future of fiction, not the exact location where most technology was developed. "SV" in this case is just a plug-in. If it makes you feel any better, substitute Austin, or Redmond, or whatnot. The exact location is not important.

"Westerns" aren't all about things that happen in the western U.S. Star Trek was a western.

That's a fair clarification - although I think there's a world of cultural difference between what people would describe as "SV" and "Non-SV" tech (By the latter, I don't mean running a TwitterForCats startup out of, say, Ohio.)

Like my Nokia phone running Windows using the World Wide Web over 802.11 to an Alcatel DSL modem connecting to a Motorola DSLAM? - damnit, vkou beat me to the punch

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