I do partly agree with you, but there are still some fundamental things going on in Silicon Valley.  On-line education, I think, has the potential to be very transformative.  Self-driving electric cars could also have a very positive effect on the world as well (including solving the &quot;last mile&quot; problem with train travel). There&#x27;s also a lot going on of course with bioengineering, and while I wouldn&#x27;t necessarily equate this with silicon valley, Stanford, Berkeley, and UCSF are of course highly relevant research institutions.  And let&#x27;s not discount the advances in distributed computing in making all of the above possible, some of which did come from silicon valley companies.<p>Of course, just because these things may greatly improve the quality of life doesn&#x27;t mean that they&#x27;ll create jobs.  They may destroy them, and while so far people have found new industries and jobs to replace the ones that become obsolete, I suppose there&#x27;s no guarantee this will continue to be the case in the future.