Every few months, someone predicts the death of Silicon Valley--or at least, the rise of whatever city will supplant it. Most recently, it's Derek Thompson at The Atlantic , who heard Brookings Institution scholar Bruce Katz say on an Aspen Ideas Festival stage that young and tech-savvy people want to move to cities, and Silicon Valley just isn't, outside the hyper-expensive San Francisco. Katz, who's out with a book heralding the ascendance of metropolitan regions, says this jeopardizes the Bay Area's continuing preeminence as the epicenter of the tech economy.
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