In his keynote speech at the Joint Venture Silicon Valley sponsored 2013 State of the Valley Conference, Paul Saffo declares the Bay Area already is a City-State, "we just need to acknowledge it... and act like it"! [By City-State he means a 'Region' within a global governance scheme.] This excerpt is the relevant discussion beginning at minute 18 of the full speech given on February 8, 2013 in San Jose, CA.