"We know that the California-centered Maker Culture is gone. There are still a hell of a lot of great people in that region– it might be the most talent-rich place on earth– but, with a few outstanding exceptions, they’re no longer the socially important ones."<p>Dynamite. I love this guy's analysis that people are paying for connections. I recently saw an MBA's LinkedIn Graph, with a huge ball of MBA contacts dwarfing the other business parts of the graph: strong data.