Nasa chief scientist Dennis Bushnell says New Zealand should look to propel itself out of the industrial age and into the virtual age, bypassing completely the IT age. New Zealand should become the world’s next Silicon Valley, attracting the best and brightest to transform our economy out of the industrial age, according to Nasa chief scientist Dennis Bushnell. A 2018 documentary series Silicon Valley: The Untold Story said that about half of the 143 tech billionaires worldwide lived in Silicon Valley, which has become the world’s technological and economic powerhouse. AP New Zealand should become the worldwide Silicon Valley, the preferred place to live for people that ideate, invent and create the future, according to Nasa chief scientist Dennis Bushnell. Pictured are Silicon Valley chief executives: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar Pichai and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Source: Stuff March 30, 2021 21:22 UTC