This reduced the importance of borders, space, of distances and prejudices. You can't have free research in an unfree society. No one killed science more in Germany than Hitler or in Russia than Stalin. Scientists will not live in a place where the air is polluted, the finance is corrupted, the government is inefficient. They can make a choice to be wherever they want.
Science brings with it a taste of freedom, for good and for transparency and for accountability.
The Middle East has a choice, either to fall to the tragedies of Africa or to elevate itself to the ranks of modern society of America and Europe. Silicon Valley can help to promote the standard of living of the Middle East by introducing high technology to promote the respect of freedom and transparency, to help the children enter a different world, by the computerization of education. . . . Eventually, this would create a new market for Silicon Valley. There are 100 million people in the Middle East. If you double their level, you build a new market.