At some point of my career I came to understanding that the future of tech is in San Francisco.
Before that, I did not care about San Francisco. But after realising that the future of tech is in San Francisco, at some point, you’d inevitably arrive at the point realising it’s also not. It’s anywhere you’d like it to be.
Meaning for yourself, you’d not necessarily be in there to do something at the world’s scale. To do some impact. As a very obvious example: military tech. Its future is right here, in Ukraine.
I’d love to spend my twenties in San Francisco. Or my thirties. My forties, however …
Giving the political climate, fuck the US. At least for now. They’re a shit show of a country for the following years, if not decades. The damage the orange monkey (he’s called Trumpon in here, funny name) did is devastating already, and he hasn’t finished yet.
Perhaps they still have some innovations there in the SF, but I just doubt that. It feels like the money is mostly funnelled into the AI, which won’t return the investment, and is not the most important technology. Just highly hyped one.
I felt a trill on the perspective to join, say, Google in California. Now, I’m not really sure.
That’s weird.
It fells like the US is on the decline. Europe is very different, and some things are promising. Say, the open source software given a change in the enterprise space, in this effort to loosen the American big tech grip. While others are disappointing: Russia is winning the elections in France and Germany.
It feels like we can do promising and inspiring tech right here, not looking at someone with awe. Perhaps that’s just what growing up looks like.