Humanity’s incredible progress in less than three centuries has been widely reported and yet still under-appreciated. It is neither opinion nor conjecture to assert that twenty-first century humanity is fundamentally privileged to a degree unimaginable at any prior century of our meager existence.  Examples abound, like rates of the

Silicon Valley is just a sub-2000 square mile patch of land in Northern California, of equivalent size to the state of Delaware. A small plot of relatively unremarkable topography. Silicon Valley is also the heart, headquarters, and catalyst for the startup ecosystem that (now) powers the US economy. Seven of