A reader asks: Why haven’t Chicago, New York, and Boston produced tech hubs like Silicon Valley?

Q. Why haven’t Chicago, New York, and Boston produced tech hubs like Silicon Valley? (via Quora) A: Ha! Boston has been and still is a major tech hub. In fact, Boston was the US’s first, and thus is also its oldest high-tech hub, starting all the way back with the freaking industrial revolution (industrial mills,…