The newly minted “Silicon Sixth Avenue” is exactly what our city, county and state have been clamouring for: a high density of young, technology enabled risk takers. With nationally renowned start-ups bookending a Silicon Valley-style incubator, this new technology corridor is already seeing the kind of positive generation-to-generation externalities that lead to true wealth.
So what now?
For anyone who has ever seen the Home Shopping Network or bought a memory foam pillow, you know what NASA means to the average household: from the road grooves before stop signs that have reduced highway traffic accidents by 85%, to the super-absorbent polymer called sodium polyacrylate that has significantly reduced the number of leaks from baby diapers, NASA has had more impact on earth than in space. According to NASA, “since 1976, over 1,600 documented NASA technologies have benefited U.S. industry, improved the quality of life, and created jobs.”
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