By now I'm sure you've read at least one article with a title like "Detroit Hopes To Drive Tech Startups Away From Silicon Valley," or "Five Cities Poised to Become the Next Silicon Valley" or my personal favorite, "Move Silicon Valley to Cleveland."
Even I have played with these types of comparisons, but that was more than four years ago and I think it might be time to give it a rest with all this "next Silicon Valley" business. I just don't think we're gaining any real insights by trying to correlate any other place on the planet with what has happened in the last 50 years in a "one-in-a-billion" place like the Bay Area.
