Let me point out something that I meant to emphasize about Silicon Valley that will, I think, continue to be a key to it's health: non-competes are essentially unenforceable in California.  This helps the sustaining creative destruction, starting with the first two silicon companies (Shockley Semiconductor -&#62; Fairchild Semiconductor -&#62; a constantly cross fertilizing diaspora).<p>Yes, another state that has other good SV style characteristics <i>might</i> adopt that, but I suspect none will.