<h4 style="padding-top: 20px"> Why Calgary (or your home town) will not be the next Silicon Valley. </h4>

<p>In the Eighties I had an inflection point in my career&#8212;clear only in retrospect&#8212;where I had a choice. I could have set out for Silicon Valley not all that long after it started to be called that. I had family in the area who I like to believe would have...</p>

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<p><em>Listen, above, or <a href="http://www.ntyessays.com/articles/004-who-will-be-our-fred-terman" rel="nofollow">read the essay instead</a>.</em></p>

Self-Driving Cars: Have We Completely Lost Our Minds?

The Not There Yet podcast is a ongoing series of short essays covering a wide range of subjects from the perspective of the third decade of the 21st century. They are intended to be thought provoking, challenging, skeptical and hopefully funny once in a while. They are sometimes conventional in nature and others are a little more experimental. They cover science, history, sports, technology, philosophy or just about whatever subject comes to mind. Sometimes they look forward, other times they look back. They will not, however, take up a lot of your time and will be told in an interesting and accessible way.