Bob Lessin, last night's moderator at the NY Tech -10 +10 event, posed this question early on to participants Kevin Ryan of Alleycorp and Henry Blodget of The Business Insider in order to gauge how much more attractive "tech" has become since the "cracks" began appearing in NYC's culture's focus on Wall Street financiers.  Although the question wasn't definitively answered, it did serve to set the tone for the discussion about the past ten years of NYC's tech culture and what it will look like in ten years, a conversation that included:

• Blodget's belief that NYC is more about content while Silicon Valley is more about infrastructure; Ryan disagreed, saying at one point that the Valley has become "irrelevant"
• Ryan noted that there are more engineers in NYC whereas in the late 90s, startups complained about their lack
• Ryan also highlighted the fact that there are more venture capital firms in Boston than in NYC, but these firms are also moving people here
• Blodget believes that hyperlocal news Web sites like the Patch, financed by local ads could work, but he doesn't see computer-powered aggregators taking over for humans
• Ryan still sees a place for advertising agencies, but agencies need to be more tech-savvy

Lessin, the moderator, is from Jeffries Inc. and the event was organized by his son's, Sam Lessin's,  Brooklyn Future Meetup Group and held at the 92YTribeca in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood.