The British — perhaps more than any single other culture — are perfectly suited for venturing forth from Britain and setting up startup societies anywhere in the world.So: assume London is over, for now. And set up New London elsewhere. Ideally by connecting many distributed New Londons, as if all the Chinatowns of the world were part of one commercial network.todofmm (@todofmm):@balajis How exactly would it work in case of totalitarian theocracy of say YooKay? ...

China has many cities that specialize in specific products. Like Detroit for cars, they have Cixi for hair dryers, Wenzhou for lighters, and Ningbo for home appliances.We’re familiar with this idea for cultural sectors, like NYC/Shanghai for finance, Silicon Valley/Shenzhen for tech, DC/Beijing for politics, and Hollywood/Hengdian for movies.But of course spatial concentration works for many industries. We’ve written about this already for drone zones and biotech boroughs, but specializing around an *existi ...

This is actually already happening, as there are 250,000+ Brits in the UAE alone. It is also why we will see startup societies and network states. https://t.co/BAObgJ8zD3Marko Jukic (@mmjukic):As bad as things get, we know we are nowhere close to the bottom so long as there isn't mass emigration of Western citizens to safe foreign countries. This will likely happen, so we have a ways to go. Imagine Western immigrant communities in Dubai, China, Albania, El Salvador... ...