London, the next international tech city

London’s very own technology hub. He reckoned that if Britain had an equivalent to California’s all-conquering Silicon Valley – home to Google, Facebook, and Apple – he was at the heart of it.

Directly out of his window was Old Street’s grey, dreary, deeply uninspiring, traffic-clogged junction – gleaming City towers and Georgian Bloomsbury facades to the south and west, Hackney Marshes and London Fields to the north and east.