geoffrey burns is the latest in that list. he wants to build a tech city here.oes not exist in the world and this becomes the epicentre for it. but not everyone loves the idea. it would be separating, carving out land and going out on their own to create their own entire government and we do not think that is appropriate. geoffrey burns' goal is to build a self—governing tech city which he calls painted rock, and it will govern itself as its own county, unshackled by local government, and he believes tech companies will be free to innovate. the problem is government is it is reactive. politicians, civil servants, they are risk averse, they don't want to take chances, "no" is a better answer than "yes". he has already spent $170 million buying a huge area of this county, the proposed location of this new city. this is the piece of land where, in theory, the dream is going to be built. and as you can see, it is a vast patch of land bigger than the city of reno. i guess it is any company that thinks that there is a need to test out new ways of doing things and want