This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Tuesday, October 29th, 2004.

I'm Keelip Brown.

They're digital nomads, people who can do their work from just about anywhere and often travel

the world as they do so.

One problem for them is that the U.S. may or may not prohibit these people from living the

life and spending any substantial time in the U.S. these people

need clarity and spending any substantial time in the US.

Caters David Beer says these people need clarity and the US needs to be more

welcoming.

We spoke last week. Dave, who are digital nomads? What can we say with confidence about who these people are?

A digital nomad in normal... about who can

these people are. A digital nomad in normal speak is just someone who can work from anywhere

who can make their office, their hotel room without any problems.

And the nomad part of it is, you know, you travel the world, the country,

doing your work remotely and this kind of thing has become far more common both in

the United States and throughout the world than basically at any other point in time.

People who don't need a place to go in order to do their work in some ways, right?

Yeah, that's right. They don't need a permanent station in front of them to be able to do their work. So people who are doing their work really through their laptop.

Yeah, so I assume some of these folks probably make quite a lot of money.

That's right. I mean it certainly varies considerably.

You can have people who are just starting out. They're starting their online business. They're doing

a little software development on the side while they travel the world.

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