Donald Trump is right: Silicon Valley needs to invest in America

When Donald Trump met with technology leaders in December to tell them he wanted them to create jobs in the US, their heads probably tilted to the side, as if you tried to explain physics to your dog and she just watched your lips moving and wondered when, among all those unfamiliar sounds, she was going to hear the word "treat". They're in business to help us do more with less. They like innovation and disruption and software eating the world but people – er, not so much. In his own Chance-the-gardener way, the President-elect might be on to something. His victory was a middle-finger salute from those who feeling left out by technology and globalisation.