{"id":7592,"date":"2013-01-04T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2013-01-04T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:01:25","slug":"the-end-of-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-end-of-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Of Silicon Valley?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/010413_1636_TheEndOfSil1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alyson Shontell believes that in just 50 years Silicon Valley \u2013 the home of companies such as Facebook \u2013 could soon disappear. What could cause such a calamity? The bursting of another tech bubble? The unsustainability of a business model driven by advertisement revenue alone? Patent wars? Nope. It&#8217;s all about the environment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Much of California&#8217;s coastline is threatened by rising sea levels.<\/li>\n<li>Silicon Valley, in particular, is 3-10 feet below sea level, meaning that flood waters could overtake the entire area.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps this is why tech companies have had such a focus on saving the environment \u2013 they&#8217;re desperately trying to save their offices.<\/li>\n<li>Luckily the companies at risk have the cash to build improved levees to ward off the disaster in the making&#8230;for now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about future water level projections, the population of Silicon Valley, and other tech companies that might be affected over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/climate-change-facebook-2013-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/climate-change-facebook-2013-1\">Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyson Shontell believes that in just 50 years Silicon Valley \u2013 the home of companies such as Facebook \u2013 could soon disappear. What could cause such a calamity? The bursting of another tech bubble? The unsustainability of a business model driven by advertisement revenue alone? Patent wars? Nope. It&#8217;s all about the environment: Much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/010413_1636_TheEndOfSil1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7595,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions\/7595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}