Shifting demographics won&#x27;t inherently change diversity issues in places like Silicon Valley. The problem is far wider than numerical distribution; it&#x27;s education, home stability, environment, poverty, etc etc, and 15 years isn&#x27;t going to correct all of that just because national demographics are gradually shifting.<p>The proof for that is all around: black people are 15% of the population, but a fraction of that in major tech companies. The same holds true for latinos.  There&#x27;s a reverse example that makes the point as well: asians as a percentage of the national population, versus representation in tech companies in Silicon Valley. That more than makes it clear it&#x27;s about skills and education, not demographic percentages.<p>Baltimore is ~65% black. Do you think 65% of the programmers in Baltimore are black?<p>If your theory were correct, we&#x27;d have seen a lot more black people working for Twitter, Apple, Google, etc. a long time ago.<p>It doesn&#x27;t matter if the future is 80% non-white, if people that are non-white don&#x27;t develop the education and skills required for the jobs in Silicon Valley. That&#x27;s the issue, and it won&#x27;t change just because the percentages on demographics do - ie it is not self-correcting. If it were self-correcting, you&#x27;d see proof of that in US cities that have had very large black populations for a long time.