Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
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Re: Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
#2TLDR: anti-competative laws shunted growth to areas like silicon Valley which didn't have them.
Seriously, why do we even allow people not at a C level to be impacted by these laws that say you can't leave to start a competitor? Moreover, why is it legal, like in NY, for a company to say they own all your work both on and off the job? We're killing ourselves.
Re: Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
#3TLDR: anti-competative laws shunted growth to areas like silicon Valley which didn't have them. Seriously, why do we even allow people not at a C level to be impacted by these laws that say you can't leave to start a competitor? Moreover, why is it legal, like in NY, for a company to say they own all your work both on and off the job? We're killing ourselves.
>Seriously, why do we even allow people not at a C level to be impacted by these laws that say you can't leave to start a competitor? Moreover, why is it legal, like in NY, for a company to say they own all your work both on and off the job? We're killing ourselves.
Because the people in power don't want to compete in a market.
Re: Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
#4So there's silicon alley in NY, silicon prairie in the midwest, silicon forest in portland, what do we call Jersey?
Re: Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
#5The exact same story is told in the film industry. Edison's patents were very strongly enforced on the east coast, but not in California. All of the film studios then packed up and headed west.
Re: Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
#6So there's silicon alley in NY, silicon prairie in the midwest, silicon forest in portland, what do we call Jersey?
Telecom Alley, given that much of the tech jobs at the time were through Bell Labs and affiliates
Or we could just call it uninhabitable.
Re: Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
#7So there's silicon alley in NY, silicon prairie in the midwest, silicon forest in portland, what do we call Jersey?
wasn't it called Route 128 ?
Re: Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
#8TLDR: anti-competative laws shunted growth to areas like silicon Valley which didn't have them. Seriously, why do we even allow people not at a C level to be impacted by these laws that say you can't leave to start a competitor? Moreover, why is it legal, like in NY, for a company to say they own all your work both on and off the job? We're killing ourselves.
>Seriously, why do we even allow people not at a C level to be impacted by these laws that say you can't leave to start a competitor? Moreover, why is it legal, like in NY, for a company to say they own all your work both on and off the job? We're killing ourselves. Because the people in power don't want to compete in a market.
"Because the people in power don't want to compete in a market."
That's something people forget. Even people and companies who have benefited from the market don't really want to compete and will do whatever they can to not have to compete.
Re: Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
#9TLDR: anti-competative laws shunted growth to areas like silicon Valley which didn't have them. Seriously, why do we even allow people not at a C level to be impacted by these laws that say you can't leave to start a competitor? Moreover, why is it legal, like in NY, for a company to say they own all your work both on and off the job? We're killing ourselves.
I am not sure why these state laws haven't ben struck down as unconsntitional as it will effect interstate commerce in fact you could argue that for most state employment laws.
Re: Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation
#10Also central to New Jersey's weight as an innovation hub was Princeton University - where Alan Turning met and studied under Alonzo Church.[1].
Also worth mentioning is the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J where Kurt Gödel remained a faculty member until his death in 1978.[2]
Alfred Einstein also spent the last two years of his life working at the Institute. Imagine the conversations Einstein and Godel might have had? If you're interested, this a nice piece worth reading(Gödel and Einstein were walking companions!) [3]
[1] http://www.maa.org/book/export/html/606725
[2] https://www.ias.edu/scholars/godel
[3] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/28/time-bandits-2