{"id":1195,"date":"2018-12-01T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2018-12-01T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:22:20","slug":"a-reader-asks-why-havent-chicago-new-york-and-boston-produced-tech-hubs-like-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/01\/a-reader-asks-why-havent-chicago-new-york-and-boston-produced-tech-hubs-like-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"A reader asks: Why haven’t Chicago, New York, and Boston produced tech hubs like Silicon Valley?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q. Why haven’t Chicago, New York, and Boston produced tech hubs like Silicon Valley?<\/strong> (via Quora)<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

A: Ha! Boston has been and still is a major tech hub.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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, Jacquard looms\u2026) and remaining dominant or top-tier in successive waves of new tech (first electric subway in North America; first use of anesthesia; telephone invented here; radar and early jet engines developed here\u2026). The US’s first computer industry was largely centered along Boston’s Route 128 ring road. It wasn’t until 1980s that Silicon Valley finally surpassed Boston in computer tech, mostly in personal systems.<\/p>\n

Boston remains a tech hub today \u2014 Wikipedia’s list of Massachusetts tech companies runs to 138 pages! \u2014 but it’s more focused on high-tech medicine today rather than computer tech per se.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot more to high-tech than PCs!<\/p>\n

Category:Software companies based in Massachusetts<\/a> – Wikipedia<\/p>\n

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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. 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