The Rise of Pop-up Cities

We already have hacker houses, and hacker houses can last for months or even years, but they usually only fit around ten or twenty people. We already have conferences, and conferences fit thousands of people, but each conference only lasts a week. That is enough time to have serendipitous meetings, but not enough to have connections with true depth... See more

Once the immediate adjustments are made, there will be winners and losers. Absent extensive bankruptcies (and missed rent payments), traditional commercial landlords may take the lightest hit as companies still need office space, but the WeWorks of the world are in for tough times as struggling startups and small businesses look for cheaper (or fre... See more

Want to build an app for the iPhone? All you needed were some sharp coding skills, a good laptop, and a little cash each month for some AWS server space. Support services of all kinds could be outsourced to hourly contractors who went from gig to gig (and a whole new wave of software-powered start-ups had emerged to facilitate this matchmaking). Fo

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