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Originally Posted by hughesnick312
I also hear that Berlin is becoming a tech city, and has a healthy growing tech start up scene, the second biggest in Europe after london. With londons tech city district, which has many large global technology companies, and berlins growing tech start up scene, which has some smaller but still good technology companies signed up, things are moving fast and both cities are more and more successfull in these fields. The European tech cities London and berlin, have always been centres of excellence for the technology sector, but are now growing rapidly. Silicon Valley is no longer the only dog in the game, Berlins tech scene isn't at the level of London, and londons tech scene isn't at the level of Silicon Valley, but Silicon Valley does have lots of competition now, londons tech city is world class now, and Berlin will also be world class in a few years, they both have great tech start ups and things are only getting better
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Berlin, for the foreseeable future, will not be a NYC or a London.
NYC and London have been the center of the financial world for 150 years. Currently, the US and the UK are in rapid economic decline, and, are in a historic momentum period. A good historic analogue might be Paris in the 19th Century.*
Cultural and artistic exports depend on either the availability of money (power) or on historic momentum caused by the after effects of having been a world economic power.
Based upon economic dominance, the next world cultural power will be China, once the Dragon is through it's hyper quick industrialization.
However, we live in a world where cities like Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Jakarta are powerhouses with huge domestic and linguistically defined cultural markets. Buenos Aires and Mexico City are culturally competing for a market of almost 400,000,000 speakers. Sao Paulo, is the cultural center of some 200,000,000 speakers. Mumbai is the cultural center for 300,000,000 Hindi speakers, Kolkata for 200 million. Each of these cities is brimming with millions of highly talented young people, intent on expressing themselves to their linguistic culture and the world beyond.
With the internet and it's permutations, cultural powerhouses world wide are expanding their cultural exports. S Korean movies, music, etc., are very popular in Japan and much of South East Asia. Tokyo has a firm hold on much of the world's internet arts, and, is continuing to maintain it's lead.
I have immense hope for Berlin, and Moscow, in Europe, however. Both are rising stars full of energy. However, neither IMO will significantly influence the WORLD'S culture in the 21st Century. Rather, each will be a "boutique" shop visited by more dominant cultural players.
Of yes, the US is becoming a violent, dusty museum.
*Economic growth and decline are happening over shorter and shorter intervals, so historic momentum periods also do not persist as long as such periods did the 19th and 20th Centuries.