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| Subject: The dream of libertarian technotopia floating startup nations Sat May 31, 2014 3:36 am | |
| From Bloomberg's Edward Robinson, a feature on the nonprofit Seasteading Institute.
"The five-year-old organization is pursuing an ambitious aquatic mission: to develop floating microcountries that will dwell in international waters with the same sovereign status enjoyed by cruise ships. Think secessionist, do-it-yourself nation building meets the 1995 post-apocalyptic science-fiction stinker ‘Waterworld.’"
They're based in Oakland, CA, and operating on $1.2 million in seed cash from PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel.
http://boingboing.net/2014/05/30/the-dream-of-libertarian-techn.html |
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