World’s First Floating City To Emerge In The Pacific Ocean By 2020, And Here’s How The Life Will Look On It
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The concept of floating cities may sound like something from a science fiction novel, but it could become a reality by 2020. Seasteading Institute, a San Francisco-based nonprofit has been developing this idea since the foundation of the organization in 2008, and it has reached an agreement with the government of French Polynesia to begin testing in its waters.
“If you could have a floating city, it would essentially be a start-up country,” Joe Quirk, the president of the Seasteading Institute told the New York Times. “We can create a huge diversity of governments for a huge diversity of people.”
The community in question should consist of about a dozen structures, including homes, hotels, offices, and restaurants. Engineers and architects have already visited an undisclosed location where the project should emerge. The main aim of the idea is to “liberate humanity from politicians” and “rewrite the rules that govern society”.
Quirk claimed that building this utopian offshore will cost about $167 million. The Seasteading Institute has already received seed funding from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, however for the next phase of the project the institute hopes to hold an “initial coin offering,” a crowdfunding campaign which raises money by creating and selling virtual currency.
More info: seasteading.org (h/t thenewyorktimes)
Floating cities are no longer science fiction
Seasteading Institute, a San Francisco-based nonprofit has been developing this idea since the foundation of the organization in 2008
It has reached an agreement with the government of French Polynesia to begin testing in its waters
“If you could have a floating city, it would essentially be a start-up country”
“We can create a huge diversity of governments for a huge diversity of people”
The community in question should consist of about a dozen structures, including homes, hotels, offices, and restaurants
Engineers and architects have already visited an undisclosed location where the project should emerge
The main aim of the idea is to “liberate humanity from politicians” and “rewrite the rules that govern society”
Building this utopian offshore will cost about $167 million
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By utopia they mean "A place for rich people where laws are outside the jurisdiction of government."
EXACTLY!!!!
ayep.
Will cost about $167 MILL - I call bullshit right there. That may be the price of one building alone.
Seriously. A floating city will cost significantly less than a stadium?
The world's largest cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas, cost $1 billion to build. This flaoting structuire is much larger and much mroe conplex that a single hull vessel.
Significantly is right, to the tune of less than a third. I'll give you 20-1 odds on my whole nest egg they can't get this done for $167 million. I thought it was a typo but the Googles told me that's the real figure. If it really was, then Peter Thiel himself could easily fund the whole shebang.
My guess that that is the price of the prototype they are going to build in French Polynesia, no one would build a whole city without first testing the concept in the real world on a much smalller scale
Yeah I just saw on news how one of DiVincis' paintings sold for damn near half a billion! I'm not sure how one painting could cost so much more than a complete city!
Da Vinci's*
Wouldn't it be easier to ship ALL of our politicians off to a remote island somewhere? 😏
I'd donate now if that was the plan..
By utopia they mean "A place for rich people where laws are outside the jurisdiction of government."
EXACTLY!!!!
ayep.
Will cost about $167 MILL - I call bullshit right there. That may be the price of one building alone.
Seriously. A floating city will cost significantly less than a stadium?
The world's largest cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas, cost $1 billion to build. This flaoting structuire is much larger and much mroe conplex that a single hull vessel.
Significantly is right, to the tune of less than a third. I'll give you 20-1 odds on my whole nest egg they can't get this done for $167 million. I thought it was a typo but the Googles told me that's the real figure. If it really was, then Peter Thiel himself could easily fund the whole shebang.
My guess that that is the price of the prototype they are going to build in French Polynesia, no one would build a whole city without first testing the concept in the real world on a much smalller scale
Yeah I just saw on news how one of DiVincis' paintings sold for damn near half a billion! I'm not sure how one painting could cost so much more than a complete city!
Da Vinci's*
Wouldn't it be easier to ship ALL of our politicians off to a remote island somewhere? 😏
I'd donate now if that was the plan..