[reg45]

Why California as opposed to Texas?

[TalonDJ]

Proximity to a lot of other high tech industry. And compared to Europe even CA’s over regulated hell-hole is a paradise.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Why California as opposed to Texas?

Because of Silicon Valley, which is made possible by two nearby universities with world-class engineering schools - Stanford and UC Berkeley - and because of the relatively easy access to venture capital here. Silicon Valley is sort of a last, slowly eroding bastion of innovation and entrepreneurship in California, and even the "innovation" part is starting to become debatable.

We shouldn't take too much comfort from articles like this. In the US, as in Europe, we increasingly argue over what's already there instead of reaching for and creating what we want. There should already be a biotechnology revolution, a nanotechnology revolution - instead we stifle those fields with pre-emptive regulations and investors choose instead to fund ventures like Facebook, which is only innovative in terms of it's erosion of the concept of personal privacy.