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There’s another way of thinking about where the internet is, which Zook concentrates on in his book, and that’s to follow the money. ‘The great paradox,’ he writes, ‘is that despite the internet’s ability to transcend space, dot-com companies clustered in a relatively small number of urban agglomerations’: New York, Los Angeles, London, San Francisco. Zook concludes – from a lot of data, rigorously analysed – that the internet industry is concentrated in the same places as venture capital firms. Money makes money, in other words, and there’s nothing either virtual or new about that.