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San Francisco’s young entrepreneurs appear less concerned about flaunting their earnings than about showing that they can act imaginatively, with conspicuously noble ethics.

 

The future of tech influence is not suburban, as it has been for half a century. It’s the city.

 

You could enter any coffeehouse in certain neighborhoods there and hear kids talking eagerly about creative plans, a rarity in most cities thought to have inventive youth cultures.

And, along with the freewheeling schedule, it may help explain why much about the growing startup culture has a dreamy, arty, idealistic bent: this is the whimsy of youth carried to a place where youth and whimsy have not often thrived.

In 1966, Hendrik Hertzberg, then a young Newsweek reporter in the Bay Area, wrote about San Francisco’s “new bohemianism”:

The hippies, much more numerous than the Beats ever were, accentuate the positive. . . . Like the Beats, they are dropouts from the conventional “status games,” but, unlike them, have created their own happy lifestyles to drop into. “In a way,” says Jerry Garcia, twenty-four, lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead and one of the cultural heroes of Haight-Ashbury, “we’re searching for respectability—not Ford or GM respectability, but the respectability of a community supporting itself financially and spiritually.”

The youth, the upward dreams, the emphasis on life style over other status markers, the disdain for industrial hierarchy, the social benefits of good deeds and warm thoughts—only proper nouns distinguish this description from a portrait of the startup culture in the Bay Area today. It is startling to realize that urban tech life is the closest heir to the spirit of the sixties, and its creative efflorescence, that the country has so far produced.

Kirchoff – What was missing, he thought, was imagination and a free spirit. Too much of American working culture was about the profit.

Take buses. “The ones that are made over in Europe, or Japan, they were just, like, awesome. They’re inspired.” American-made models, less so. “They didn’t start with ‘Hey, how can we make a really great bus?’ They started with ‘Hey, how can we make some money?’

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