A floating tech**-libertarian city might be coming to the Pacific
 

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) 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. Still, its appeal has proved enduring.

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The micro-nations movement is **thing new, 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...

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