Colin O'Donnell on vanlife nomads and future of cities

​Colin is the founder of Kift, building a geo-distributed city with a community of nomads. 

What if the future of cities wasn't cities?
We all probably imagine that the future of cities is decentralized, distributed, connected on the internet and not tied to a physical place. But what is the internet's impact on the built environment and supporting economy? 

The three trillion dollar commercial real estate industry is teetering on the brink of collapse thanks to remote work, and there's a 30 trillion dollar follow on impact that no one is talking about.   We will walk the chain of events that leads to the end of the 20th century City. 

We will detail the social and economic impact as Cities move from concrete-and-steel to fiber-and-wireless, and explore, with hope and optimism, what the next 10 years could look like, as new cities are reborn from the ashes of the old.