When the pandemic untethered millions of workers from their offices, a new species of digital nomad was born. They set off with laptops and passwords, and have made it clear they're never coming back. Now, on a sun-dappled island in the middle of the ocean, a group of them is engaged in a novel experiment that might foretell the future of work. No place is making it work like Madeira. This tiny island off the coast of Northwest Africa is leading the way.     Goncalo Hall is the founder of the program for the nascent nomad nation.  Last February after the island's tourism economy had sharply declined, he launched 'digital nomads Madeira. Within six months, the nomads have created a vibrant, sustainable community-and helped reboot the local economy.  Nomads have generated an estimated 1.5 million euros per month. When COVID-19 hit in February 2020, the planet was suddenly filled with remote workers. At the same time, tourism crashed, leaving countries that relied on it with significantly less.            They created what they called the world's first digital nomad village in Ponta de Sol.  Right in the middle of town, near the one strip of restaurants and bars, Ponta de Sol had a cultural center dedicated to the American writer John Dos Passos. They partnered with NOS, the communications company to pump in the internet at a download speed of 500 megabits per second, with indoor and outdoor routers.  Rather than leave the new arrivals to chance, Hall launched a slack channel to serve as their networking hub.  For Danchuk, who grew up so poor in Ukraine, he sometimes only had onions and a bit of bread for dinner, it was like nothing he had ever dreamed of.  After his family moved to Israel, he became an enterprising kid-a popular class president who vowed to never be poor again. Danchuk created his own digital marketing firm at 18, and hit the road as a nomad a year later.  Since then, he's been in over 36 different countries, from the U.S. to Vietnam, spending a few months in one spot before moving on.