With the increasing connectivity of people across their country with the internet being near-ubiquitous, and all over the world, we can foresee more traditional in-house work replaced with remote jobs, and the rapid spread of business ideas (both in tech and elsewhere). Does this seem to indicate a geographic homogenization of the tech industry?<p>Can an industry that just had a few exclusive higher quality networks by location opening up to witness equal opportunities of growth everywhere?<p>It would mean a different way of thinking what it means to have business collectives.<p>Today: "X place is set to become the next tech hub"<p>Tomorrow: No thinking about tech hubs, everywhere just is.<p>This can mean that the network effect is no longer dependent on location. Do you think that will follow.
Tech hubs are good for a reason - they're easier for investors to hunt for deals and a good place for people to learn.<p>That said, tech does pay well, because it has quite a lot of impact and commercializes very well. And anywhere with a high cluster of well paid people is going to gentrify to hell.<p>We've also seen lots of cities have trouble building infra to catch up with population growth. Places like Jakarta are overpopulated and/or underdeveloped, and people would often work remotely from several hours drive out of town.<p>Remote working might make things a lot better. It's likely that sales offices could be centralized to a population hub and a R&D office might be fully remote.