Update: Oreo, Dog Thrown Off Building, Was Euthanized
People Wait For Tomorrow's UWS Apple Store Opening
Emily and Sarah Kunstler, Filmmakers
Cheap Chicken Wing Deal Ruined by Gunslinging Teens
FIT Students Busted For Drug Dealing Get Probation
A report being released tomorrow by the Industrial Assistance Corporation (IAC) titled "Buried Treasure: New York's Hidden Tech Sector" asserts that New York City rivals cities like Seattle and areas like Silicon Valley as the largest technology center in the country. The study counted the number of tech workers in the city, at branches of corporations like IBM, Microsoft, Google, and the research and development departments of medical centers in the city. The IAC report actually considered all of the "New York Metropolitan Statistical Area," which includes southern New York State and northern New Jersey. The Associated Press story says that IAC found 620,000 tech workers in that area, more than twice the number found in Silicon Valley.
The report recommended that an Office of Science and Technology Enterprises be added to the Mayor's office to help attract capital and personnel to the area. Not everyone shares the view that NYC is a mecca for high-tech industry. Popular Science ranked New York #39 in a list of high-tech cities in 2005. And the head of a San Jose, CA regional planning group attributed Silicon Valley's success to the density of tech workers as a part of the overall population.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
That's all we need, an Office of Science and Technology Enterprises be added to the Mayor's office, an budget sucking offise with more eliterate workers that kant even spell teknologi.
The cost dynamics (space, staffing, etc.) of NYC are prohibitive for the sort of shoe-string endeavors that early-stage startups tend to be (a healthy ecology of which is one of the requisites to a healthy technology industry). As it is, there's plenty of "tech" here but it's all in the service of boring things like finance, advertising, or media rather than actual innovation for its own sake. In this case, NYC is a far distant also-ran compared to other places like the bay area, the PNW, Austin, and so forth.
Just because there's a lot of depressed techies in cubicles fretting about their next TPS report doesn't make a place a "technology center".
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/geekcities.html
Hmm, I don't know if I buy it or not.
I mean, obviously Silicon Alley has given birth to companies like Gothamist, but I just got back from San Francisco and you can FEEL the geek there. Just look at Laughing Squid and you see exactly how much geek culture is a part of the Bay Area.
of course nyc is not like SV,
what we do have are the Ivillage type companies. your sex and the city tech stuff.
As a tach worker, all I can say is:
I don't want any more tech workers in NYC.
I want more models!
Tech workers do not make tech companies. Sure, we have branches of companies like Google and Yahoo, but NYC is not where those sort of companies are created. We've got publishing and financial here. No real deep tech, though. No hardcore geek culture to rival the Bay Area.
Having more tech people hired does not make the city more open to technology!
No Wireless coverage in al city, no wireless (cellphone)service in the subways, not even GPS on taxis...this city is a stubborn place regarding technology.
::comment stating the exact same thing that 6 of the 8 other comments on here have already said::