An urbanite cannot live by startup incubation alone – only implementing the latest technology within a sound built and social environment can make a city truly hi-tech. If San Francisco doesn’t rank among the most hi-tech cities in the world, which city could? The epicentre of tech lies less in San Francisco proper than in Silicon Valley to the south (Tech Insider’s list conflates the two). Facebook Twitter Pinterest San Francisco is home to Twitter’s headquarters, but is Silicon Valley still the world’s tech hub? Photograph: Wallace Woon/EPABut even some of the less overtly futuristic cities in Europe also stand a chance of emerging as the most hi-tech cities of this century.

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2016 06:22 UTC