There’s long been a desire – mostly on the part of hopeful politicians – to turn the Salinas Valley into a mini Silicon Valley. The economic development rhetoric generally goes like this: If we do a, b and c (for example, create a new website, craft a nifty slogan and woo them with tax incentives), we can lure a division of Sony or Oracle or [insert name of tech giant here], create the kind of middle-class jobs that will keep voters happy, bolster residential real estate back to something that looks like normal and transform the economy.