'Move over Silicon Valley'

Let's see. We're about two years into the cycle, it's the Davos time of year, which means it's about time for the first news media stories about innovation shifting from burnt-out Silicon Valley to fresher pastures. And there is nobody better suited to type an item so predictable and misleading than John Markoff, a master of the empty trend piece whose crowning glory was to land the term web 3.0 on the front page of the Sunday New York Times. Except the Times tech writer wrote much the same piece, six years ago. Not much of a trend. Markoff should know, from his own clips, at least, that Europe is the high-tech hub of the future — and always will be.

Europe's Technological Elite Discreetly Grins at U.S. Dot-Com Woes: In their place is a resurgent high-technology Europe, feeling increasingly confident, buoyed by a strengthened economy, and less inclined to take a backseat to the United States in technology leadership. [John Markoff, January 2001]

Move Over Silicon Valley, Here Come European Start-Ups: A technology and media conference being held here this week provided ample evidence that Silicon Valley's dominance of Internet-style technology innovation is waning. [John Markoff, January 2007]

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