The document discusses factors that contributed to the success of Silicon Valley's creative revolution, including an hospitable environment with less worry and fear, open spaces that facilitated interactions, a culture shift in the 1960s-70s towards open-mindedness, greater gender equality, collaboration over competition, an absence of monopolies, kindness among people and companies, the accumulation of knowledge, and good living conditions for ordinary people. It argues this environment encouraged risk-taking and failure was not fatal, fueling creativity. The creative revolution will reshape many jobs, so similar environments may be key for societies to adapt and thrive through technological change.

1. What made Silicon Valley?
Why is it so hard to duplicate it around the world?

2. Why not other places?
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Wall-Street, New York
London, England
Tokyo, Japan

3. People is the key
“We invest in people first”
- Ron Conway - an American investor An investor told me that people are different.
So what make Northern Californian different?
People are shaped by their environment and
culture. So What make Northern California
environment and culture unique?

4. Hospitable weather – less worry and fear
“The Ant and the Grasshopper”
- Aesop fable Hippie like grasshopper play all throughout the
summer. So, when the cold winter came, he
suffered.
However the story does not apply to California.

5. Hospitable weather – less worry and fear
California does not have a cold harsh winter.
Therefore, Californian have less worry and fear
- free mind. Many Start-ups were encouraged
by the family, friends, and the community.

6. Open Space
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7. Open Space
In 1970s, there were lots beautiful
open spaces, where all the
members of community, rich and
poor can mix naturally.
Open space facilitates the social
interactions, childlike curiosity and
community culture. Non private,
public open space is #1 public
wealth for the cultural
development.

8. Culture Shift
In the 1960's and 1970's California, Civil Rights
movement, hippie, anti war movement, and women's
movement brought open-mind, fun – not serious
attitude, diverse perspectives, and rebel culture.

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10. Women's movement and Women's
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Women are physically weaker, so in order to women to
advance in a society, the society have to advance in
diverse perspective ways: provides non-physical jobs,
social kindness for the minority, less competitive sports
and collaborative culture.
Only few states in U.S. and around the world match Northern California's gender equality.

11. Women's movement and Women's
social status
Why is it important? Many creative people
are like women. Not physically competitive,
bad at physical sport and socially inept, but
they are the genious behind the creative
revolution.

12. Women's movement and Women's
social status
“In Asia, time to time a rich aristocrat
woman had inherited leader position in
history. But that did not changed much.”
- historian
When an ordinary woman could advance in
society, that is the tipping point of the
creative revolution.

13. Collaboration over Competition
Many people believe that competition bring innovation.
That is false. Too much competition harm the innovation.
Look at Mafia. Mafia are highly competitive, and like
competitive sports. But, Mafia destroy innovation, and
discriminate women. Look at Italy and Detroit. Male
dominated greedy Detroit auto industry killed their own
innovation EV1, electric car, in 2002.
Collaboration and creativity go hand in hand,

14. No monopoly
In the early 20th century, U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt
restrict the power of big business by breaking up a monopoly,
and brought trust, justice and harmony to U.S. market. 20th
century became a U.S. century.
In 1970s and 80s, there were no monopoly in Northern
California. Good environment for small start-ups.

15. Kindness & Accumulate Knowledge
“But what does symbolize Hewlett-Packard is a
revolutionary attitude toward people, a belief
that people should be treated fairly, that the
differentiation between labor and management
should go away. And they built a company and
they lived that philosophy for 35 or 40 years and
that’s why they’re heroes. Hewlett and Packard
started what became the Valley.”
- Steve Jobs – 1984-
The kindness help accumulate knowleges to
spread. Fairly treated HP engineers help
children to learn new technologies. Steve
job got a summer job at HP at age 13.
Kindness and relax atmosphere foster
childlike curiosity for creativity.

16. Good living condition for an ordinary man
Paul and Steve
Paul Jobs, Steve's father - high school dropout,
were able to afford living, and to raise family. In
the 1960s and 1970s California, you did not have
to be rich, aristocrat, prince, Cinderella, nor
elite to have a good life.
An ordinary person could afford living, enjoy life,
and change history. No worry and fear.
Only few countries around the world offer good living condition for an ordinary man.

17. Failure is not fatal
In the public wealth perspective, Silicon
Valley were richer than any other places
at the time. Open spaces, open
perspectives, hospitable environment,
kindness, colloborate culture, and livable
wage and a good living condition for
ordinary people. Failure was not fatal:
you could start again and again.
All these encourage people to take risk.
Encouragement and risk taking embeded
into the culture.
In South Korea, failure is often fatal.

18. Why is the creative revolution matter?
Computer and software development will soon
surpass human capability in many areas.
MIT Review
“Many types of jobs as these powerful new
technologies are increasingly adopted not only
in manufacturing, clerical, and retail work but
in professions such as law, financial services,
education, and medicine.”
- MIT Technology Review Many traditional jobs will be disappear, and
many creative jobs will be created.

19. Time of change.

20. Why is the creative revolution matter?
Detroit: the pinnacle of
industrial automotive
revolution, greedy, gender gap,
racial discrimination, big 3
monopolies.
- Great Disruption -

21. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way.”
-Leo Tolstoy
It also applies to societies; all happy societies are
alike.

22. Finland – the next Valley?
hospitable social environments
fun & quality education system
social welfare programs
no gender gap
open space
livable wage
kindness
accumulate knowledge
Good living condition for ordinary people

23. “The creative revolution = The kindness revolution”
Paul, Wozniak, Hewlett and Packard, and other
countless kind people were behind the revolution
success.

24. The Last Keynote.
The Kindness Revolution.
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