Southwest USA: A Hub of Innovation and Creativity Southwest USA: A Hub of Innovation and Creativity 1. Silicon Valley’s role in Southwest’s innovation scene Title: Silicon Valley & the Southwest: What Happens When Tech Wizards Meet Cowboys Once upon a time, the scenes were quite distinct. Silicon Valley had its flannel-draped, coding-till-dawn tech wizards, gobbled up sushi and lattes, nerding out over beta testing and C++. The Southwest was cowboy terrain, where men with sun-baked skin downed whiskey between rodeos and spoke in the slow, sage-brushed drawls of poets. Each had its charm, its pace, its discrete ecosystem. But like a whirlwind romance that nobody saw coming (but should have),…
-
-
Historic Towns and Cities in the Southwest Historic Towns and Cities in the Southwest 1. Mining history of Southwest towns If there is a frontier for stories seasoned with adventure, untamed lawlessness, and unimaginable riches, it has to be the mining history of Southwest towns – often remembered as “the Wild, Wild West” or “the old diggin’s”. Picture this: Stubbly-nosed prospectors jostling with livestock, saloons filled to the brim with raucous laughter, gunsmoke lingering above the sediment-stirred streets, all emanating under the auspicious overture of the land of red rocks and tumbleweeds. Yee-haw, let’s shimmy down memory lane and dig into the humor-filled, dusty annals of Southwest mining towns. In…
