The deep point is that cities are no longer necessarily built around natural resources or bodies of water.

They’re built around people hitting keys on laptops. The factors of production are as mobile as the people. https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1337070964115271680
Starlink is going to open up the map further. You used to build cities around ports, but now every computer has a port to trade with the whole world.

The internet also makes mass coordinated migration and crowdfunding feasible. Burning Man just the start of what’s possible here.
Here’s a piece from 2013 on starting new cities from the cloud. Even more relevant today, with seven years of advancements in virtual reality, virtual currency, and remote work. https://www.wired.com/2013/11/software-is-reorganizing-the-world-and-cloud-formations-could-lead-to-physical-nations
Software Is Reorganizing the World

When cloud formations take physical shape, neither their scale nor duration has an upper bound: We may begin to see cloud towns, then cloud cities, and ultimately cloud countries. At first this...

https://www.wired.com/2013/11/software-is-reorganizing-the-world-and-cloud-formations-could-lead-to-physical-nations
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