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On an unusually warm November afternoon in 2011, the newly-elected British Prime Minister David Cameron stepped out of a limousine and strode into a former brewery in Shoreditch, London. The brewery was now a coworking space called, creatively, Tech Hub, and Cameron was there to announce his new vision for Londonβs dilapidated East. He called it βEast London Tech City,β but everyone else knew it by another name: Silicon Roundabout.