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London: The Hottest Tech Scene Since Silicon Valley?
Londons so-called "Silicon Roundabout" east of downtown can appear underwhelming. The attached Tube station is decrepit, the shops below ground are tatty, and at night its psychogeography seems deliberately designed to attract muggers and thieves.
It doesnt get much better above the surface. Traffic swirls around the unwieldy Old Street roundabout , which is dominated by a huge billboard. Nearby City Road stretches north for a mile from the Thames and the City of London, home to Londons banks and finance.
The cityscape is depressing. Nothing seems to have been built since the areas halcyon days of printing in the 1970s and 1980s, when it served the newspaper industry on nea…
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