NYT: "
Floating Cities, No Longer Science Fiction, Begin to Take Shape"
Long the stuff of science fiction, so-called
“seasteading” has in recent years matured from pure fantasy into
something approaching reality, and there are now companies, academics,
architects and even a government working together on a prototype by
2020.
…Earlier this year, the government of French Polynesia agreed
to let the Seasteading Institute begin testing in its waters.
Construction could begin soon, and the first floating buildings — the
nucleus of a city — might be inhabitable in just a few years.
“If
you could have a floating city, it would essentially be a start-up
country,” said Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute. “We
can create a huge diversity of governments for a huge diversity of
people.”
(Via
Marginal Revolution.)
