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Originally Posted by casper
As I said, I don't know what it means to be a tech-hud. Vancouver, Victoria, and Kelowna all claim to be such a hub. So your assessment that there may be "hundreds upon hundreds" is correct. I use to live in Saskatoon, and with Innovation Place that city also had a significant tech (thought mostly Bio-tech) component.
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Personally, I don't know why it is important that Vancouver gets some kind of recognition that it is a "legitimate tech hub" via this forum or news articles like these. This isn't the 90s when tech was relatively new and sexy. Its the 21st century, tech is part of everyday life now, no different than food production, housing construction, clothing manufacturing or the shipping industry.
This desire for "legitimate tech hub" is such an outdated notion, and given globalization, the true legitimate tech hubs nowadays are those many cities in the third world were tech is indeed being processed and manufactured due to cheap but skilled labour, or those few cities in the developed world where tech advances are being developed due to talent and innovative individuals who happen to all reside in those few places.
Frankly, this whole desire for recognition as a "legitimate tech hub" is more off a reflection of the proponents' insecurity in a city's role in the tech industry more than anything else.
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