Tired of the United States and the other 190-odd nations on Earth?
If a small team of Silicon Valley millionaires get their way, in a few years, you could have a new option for global citizenship: A permanent, quasi-sovereign nation floating in international waters.
With a $500,000 donation from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, a Google engineer and a former Sun Microsystems programmer have launched The Seasteading Institute, an organization dedicated to creating experimental ocean communities “with diverse social, political, and legal systems.”
“Decades from now, those looking back at the start of the century will understand that Seasteading was an obvious step towards encouraging the development of more efficient, practical public-sector models around the world,” Thiel said in a statement.
May 19, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Clocking in a mere 31 years after Buckminster Fuller proposed Triton City.
May 19, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Wired link needs fixing.
May 19, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Thanks, the link is now updated.