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"Seasteading" reminds me of Waterworld...

by shmody Feb 2, 2009 10:04PM PST

"Seasteading" reminds me of Waterworld...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10154185-38.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.4
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If Patri Friedman gets his way, the area will also be remembered for birthing a political movement called seasteading. The concept is as simple to explain as it will be difficult to achieve: erecting permanent dwellings on the high seas outside the territorial waters claimed by the world's governments.

"Innovation in society and serving marginalized groups has always happened on the frontier," Friedman said in an interview last week. "We don't have a frontier anymore. The reason our political system doesn't innovate anymore is that there's no place to try out new things. We want to provide that place."

Designing an offshore place to live is one of the first tasks of the Seasteading Institute, which Friedman, 32, founded last year and moved into shared office space near the Palo Alto Caltrain station two weeks ago.
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In the mid/long-term, I can see this as a viable competitor to private island resorts, etc.

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Shalin