I wasn’t clear.

I said that these ideas need to be localized — but I wasn’t trying to imply that SV export the ideas and then others implement them… though it kind of sounds that way. I don’t think I completed that thought — which is that, as with BarCamp and coworking, there’s a lot of space to explore around all these ideas — ideas which are not unique to Silicon Valley. Perhaps our press is more eager to cover news about these things, so it seems like there’s more of it going on here, but like I said, SV doesn’t have a monopoly on these ideas — and indeed, it’s communities around the world pushing all of this forward.

Sorry if that wasn’t clear or sounded too SV-centric. That really isn’t how I think, nor is it totally consistent with my experience!

I expected you were going to say something like “… good ideas can come from Silicon Valley or anywhere else”, but what I think I heard you saying was that any place may apply the good ideas which will come from SV.
Chris, you don’t seem arrogant and decentralisation is your watchword, so I guess I’ll give the benefit of the doubt.