Migrant workers?
Well farming is by definition tied to land. The oil drilling example is mostly blue collar. An older example is printers/typesetters, who were noted in Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class book as the first industrial nomad class. But information is fundamentally more mobile.
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Oil drilling is likewise location tied. In both cases the worker is not native to the location, and will not rehome there long-term. Information being mobile leads to concentrations of processing power (LA, NYC) more than migratory patterns. Its easier to move info than people.
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Admittedly, there are probably some liminal cases where the info doesn't move easily, like the aforementioned technical on-sites, because the business owner isn't comfortable moving their data off-site. Those seem unlikely to persist long term, given the associated costs.
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