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04-05-2017, 07:02 AM
A floating tech**-libertarian city might be coming to the Pacific
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In May, a group will gather in Tahiti to discuss building floating cities off the French Polynesian coast.*
That's right. The men of the Seasteading Institute (and something suggests, it will be mostly men (https://www.seasteading.org/about/staff-board-advisors/)) dream of building extra-national platforms in the ocean.*
The organisation has been derided as a tech**-utopian pipe dream, or more prosaically, as a means of tax evasion since it was created in 2008 (https://www.seasteading.org/about/). Still, its appeal has proved enduring.
SEE ALSO: Your internet data is absolutely a national security issue (http://mashable.com/2017/04/03/your-data-is-a-national-security-issue/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The micro-nations movement is **thing new (http://mashable.com/2017/02/10/micronations-australia-atlantium-own-country/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), but the idea of creating permanent dwellings at sea found a regulation-rejecting Silicon Valley incarnation thanks to PayPal founder and Donald Trump backer Peter Thiel, as well as Patri Friedman, eco**mist Milton Friedman's grandson.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/seasteading-french-polynesia-project/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Micronations (http://mashable.com/category/micronations/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), French Polynesia (http://mashable.com/category/french-polynesia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Peter Thiel (http://mashable.com/category/peter-thiel/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Seasteading (http://mashable.com/category/seasteading/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and The Seasteading Institute (http://mashable.com/category/the-seasteading-institute/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/JTQDeAxgclk
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In May, a group will gather in Tahiti to discuss building floating cities off the French Polynesian coast.*
That's right. The men of the Seasteading Institute (and something suggests, it will be mostly men (https://www.seasteading.org/about/staff-board-advisors/)) dream of building extra-national platforms in the ocean.*
The organisation has been derided as a tech**-utopian pipe dream, or more prosaically, as a means of tax evasion since it was created in 2008 (https://www.seasteading.org/about/). Still, its appeal has proved enduring.
SEE ALSO: Your internet data is absolutely a national security issue (http://mashable.com/2017/04/03/your-data-is-a-national-security-issue/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The micro-nations movement is **thing new (http://mashable.com/2017/02/10/micronations-australia-atlantium-own-country/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), but the idea of creating permanent dwellings at sea found a regulation-rejecting Silicon Valley incarnation thanks to PayPal founder and Donald Trump backer Peter Thiel, as well as Patri Friedman, eco**mist Milton Friedman's grandson.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/seasteading-french-polynesia-project/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Micronations (http://mashable.com/category/micronations/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), French Polynesia (http://mashable.com/category/french-polynesia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Peter Thiel (http://mashable.com/category/peter-thiel/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Seasteading (http://mashable.com/category/seasteading/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and The Seasteading Institute (http://mashable.com/category/the-seasteading-institute/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/JTQDeAxgclk