JOURNAL: Forget Silicon Valley and Wall Street

Where will prosperity be created in the not too distant future?  One good bet are hackerspaces like these (in the North American midwest).  Every resilient community needs at least one.

OmniCorp Detroit (OCD) — Detroit, MI
I3 - Ferndale, MI
All Hands Active (AHA) — Ann Arbor, MI
A2 MechShop — Ann Arbor, MI
Site3 — Toronto, OH
Hacklab.TO — Toronto, OH
Kwartzlab — Kitchener, ON
think|haus — Hamilton, ON
BloomingLabs — Bloomington, IN
Independent Media Center — Urbana, IL
LVL1 — Louisville, KY
Hive13 — Cincinnati, OH
Arch Reactor — St. Louis, MO
CCCKC — Kansas City, MO
Paper Street Motors — Detroit, MI
Pumping Station: One — Chicago, IL
Hack PGH — Pittsburgh, PA
Noisebridge — San Francisco, CA
LVL1 — Louisville, KY
Quad Cities Co-Lab — Quad Cities, IL/IA
Sector67 — Madison, WI
Interlock Rochester — Rochester, NY

Forget the Big Economy.  That's over for most of us.  Create locally.

h/t Sterling.