It is a small country you are visiting by car. First, a long-lined boulevard, lined with tall trees

It is a small country you are visiting by car. First, a long-lined boulevard, lined with tall trees - pines, palms, eucalyptus - hiding houses scattering distance of each other. Beautiful houses (styles in fashion now: Château de la Loire and Mediterranean villa), houses worth millions, their owners hidden behind brick walls and small forests. Your guide tells you: "Here are the Champs Elysées." But you do not see anyone on the Champs Elysées, with the exception of rare cars. Besides, your guide says there is 5 years, there was not much here.
You pass a school. Public sensibly, it is funded by a fueled by parents who thus exempt a portion of their taxes foundation. The tuition is exorbitant, parents pick up their children in Range Rover and organize birthday parties in exotic destinations where everyone is taken in private jets. Strung some sports clubs, where registration is unaffordable for those who can not practice polo in their garden.
Just turn to borrow the shopping street of the city, cross the railway to arrive in a semi-industrial area where there are no trees. Food stalls along the street. People who wander. A high proportion of migrants, legal and illegal. The houses are a bit dilapidated, dogs at the end of chains, cars on lawns damaged. All these people live work in the great houses of the billionaires they are gardens, maintain pools, do the housework, caring for children, repair the roof or plumbing. This area is a little wing domestic houses of yore.
This small country, it is not Greece or Portugal. This small country we traveled by car with a Weekly Standard reporter and his guide is Silicon Valley. This small part of northern California, south of San Francisco where invents and creates a large part of our services and our digital tools. These houses, they belong to Sergei Brin, one of the two founders of Google, whose fortune vehicle registration number is estimated at $ 24 billion (making it the 14th richest man in the United States according to Forbes), or Sheryl Sandberg, operational director of Facebook, and her husband.
Image: mapping extracted from a Silicon Valley vehicle registration number computer graphics Business Insider, showing the situation of some of the most beautiful houses in the Valley vehicle registration number - like Mark Zuckerberg that you can visit here - that of large firms and digital as homeless camps, including "The Jungle" one of the largest homeless camp in the United vehicle registration number States.
And this country, Charlotte Allen, journalist Weekly Standard vehicle registration number writes that it is "a vivid picture of what many economists and forecasters see as the fate that awaits America, vehicle registration number a fate which Americans must resolve ". vehicle registration number
Why? Because computers, as they are more efficient, vehicle registration number do the work formerly vehicle registration number vested in the middle class, dividing society into two: a rich oligarchy whose skills are complementary to the machines and the rest, a kind of proletariat eking small precarious jobs. A situation that some economists compare the Middle Ages, a world with a few lords and countless serfs. According to Charlotte Allen and economists questioned it, the entire Silicon Valley is being transformed according to this principle, since the mid-90s, when the last manufacturing jobs have disappeared in favor of China. More workers, more manufacturers, a software world, inventors, a world of lush green campus where gifted students dream of becoming rich even richer by creating the Google of tomorrow, not far from quasi-ghettos. The future of America.
So when the digital evangelists come and tell us, in France, but also in Portugal and Greece (which recently proclaimed that the entrepreneur Andrew Keen back to Athens), vehicle registration number that is the digital economy save us, we may wonder if the future Silicon Valley is desirable horizon of the world.
The issue of 30 November vehicle registration number 2013 Place of the Web was in turn dedicated to the darknet, the internet or other myth ... With, to discuss, Jérémie Zimmermann (@ jerezim) vehicle registration number spokesperson and co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, an organization that advocates for the defense of a free and open Internet, and journalists Amaelle Guiton (blog, vehicle registration number @ micro_ouvert vehicle registration number ), author of Hackers, vehicle registration number in the heart of digital resistance, Olivier Tesquet (@ oliviertesquet) Télérama and author of Understanding Wikileaks.
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