22nd Century Solutions
In the 21st Century
Silicon Bayou: Houston, Texas is dedicated to ensuring that all who wish to participate in and benefit from technological advancements are afforded the opportunity to do so regardless of creed, class, color or gender.
Houston, Texas is a dynamic, vibrant city with a diverse population. It is connected to the continental United States by freight rail lines, interstate highways and to the world via two international airports and a bustling sea port. This city, built aside bayous, has been dubbed “The Energy Capital of the World.” It houses the world’s largest medical center and NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Recently, the city of Houston and its business community offered an amazing package of incentives and our collective resources to secure Amazon’s “HQ2.” Now that the city has lost the bid, where do we go from here?
The purpose of this article is not to offer a postmortem, lay blame, or point fingers for losing the bid, but simply to offer a way to achieve the stated purpose of the proposed “Houston Innovation Corridor” without selling our collective soul to Amazon or any other outside entity. What is proposed here is that we reignite our enthusiasm and invest the same incentives and resources we offered Amazon, but this time, turn inward to create Houston’s version of the next generation of technological juggernauts.