The White Bay Tardis

Last week some nutter was trying to convince me that Sydney’s White Bay precinct was going to challenge Silicon Valley as a tech hub.

After failing to convey to him the concepts of:

A. A cargo cult propagated by a morass of morons with the experience of gnats and the collective intelligence of a Gen Y marketing expert, and

B. A bullshit government marketing campaign designed to disguise yet another high density housing development sans infrastructure, and

C. A bullshit government marketing campaign designed to deflect criticism from the decision to redevelop an existing tech hub (the ATP) as a housing and commercial development,

I reverted to straight data. I said Silicon Valley is about 1500 square miles in area. White Bay is about 2 squares miles. See the map on the left below with the tiny red dot between the ‘S’ and ‘y’ of Sydney representing White Bay, and on the same scale on the right the whole of Silicon Valley.

Nuh. No impact. My adversary, the moron, went catatonic in order not to hear unwanted facts.