But he says the emerging tech lobby is different in how it shapes the physical landscape of the city.
He feels that the emerging tech lobby is shaping the physical landscape of the city in self-involved ways.
But the emerging tech ecosystems provide a model of how other industries, too, could become more vibrant if governments would only set them free.
If there is a prize for the fastest emerging tech controversy of the century the 'gene drive' may have just won it.
"What happens here may well happen in similar ways elsewhere, such as the emerging tech zones in London and Berlin," says Turner.
The first signs of the emerging tech utopia we were always told about don't look so great if you can't code.
You could write a book about The Conversation's relationship to emerging tech, reassess it in the light of such a wholesale overhaul to surveillance and privacy.
Incubators hope that start-ups will see surrendering equity as a fair price for the contacts and training they provide.Will Nairobi then compete with other emerging tech hubs such as Bangalore and Tel Aviv?
When I first came to Manchester there wasn't a tech scene as such whereas now it's very clear there is an emerging tech scene, and a culture around startups, which is great".
"I think drones are the next big thing," says Mbwana Alliy, founder and managing partner of Savannah Fund, an early-stage seed fund focused on emerging tech companies in Africa.
As we have seen, emerging tech titans from the mainland, such as Huawei and ZTE, have since made gains.
