Silicon Valley: behind the time's ?

The Google uproar shows that Silicon Valley isn't a center of innovation, but behind the times

The talk of Silicon Valley just now is a document critical of Google’s workplace diversity programs, written by a now-fired software engineer named James Damore and virally circulated online.

Entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” the memo accuses Google of political bias aimed at “shaming into silence” employees wishing to challenge “ideas … too sacred to be honestly discussed.” These “sacred” ideas include the notion that gender disparities in the Google workforce should be reduced, if not eradicated. Damore, 28, believes that these disparities may derive in part from innate differences between men and women, and ignoring that will be “unfair, divisive, and bad for business.”

The Google uproar shows that Silicon Valley isn't a center of innovation, but behind the times

 

Location, location, location. It's all about Location, the best parts of the bay area aren't cheap, Marin county was rated the second most expensive area to live in the U.S. for awhile, not sure what the rating is today, that was few years back.

Since recreational hooch was legalized I would think it would give reason to step out of the closet so to speak.

Silicon Valley is all about technology so far as I'm concerned. Could google fall behind like yahoo did ? What and whom are and is the competition ?