Silicon valediction? Our road trip to tech industry hotspots as the sector cools

Tables may have freed up at Silicon Valley's Coupa Cafe, but scalability' is still on the menu as tech workers look forward

If you read the news, you'd think that San Francisco is dead. If you try to drive there during rush hour, you'd find that hard to believe.

On a sunny Wednesday morning this month, I found myself on the Bay Bridge, en route to inspect the alleged demise of San Francisco and the reports that Silicon Valley's golden age is coming to a halt.