One of their concepts includes moveable neighborhoods and blocks that can be shuffled about to create new city layouts. The crazy ideas don’t stop with the creation of a waterworld. The institute thinks new land is a great place to try new government, and they’d like to test one out that allows marijuana and communal intellectual property.
Ok, now this just sounds like a bad museum exhibition just waiting to happen. They insist that they aren’t just thinking of this plan to get away from the rules, but we’re thinking that they are. They can’t wait to shove it in the face of us jerks on the mainland.
Things are literally still on the drawing board, but these brainstormers think that a prototype can get floating within three years. So far the group has about 600 members that are looking for a life at sea, without rules, and a purple haze instead of a traffic haze. If you want to learn more and meet your new neighbors, they’re meeting in Berkeley (where else?) on March 28.
Related Stories: [Rendering of what's to come: patrissimo]
·The Seasteading Institute [Official Site]
·City Floating On The Sea Could Be Just 3 Years Away [CNN]
·Ocean Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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