Los Angeles isn't where you live. It's how you live. In fact, this may be the world's first physical prototype of the virtual world. The World Wide Web of Los Angeles. When you're open to anything and wired to everything, word gets out.
Talent is mobile.
Knowledge is mobile. Capital is mobile. No wonder more than 14 million people have made the Basin their home. That's a universe. Singapore's minister of trade, George Yeo, puts Los Angeles on the short list, with Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Hong Kong, of places capable of sustaining themselves as nation-states.