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Friday, May 23 2008, 03:28 PM
Do you yearn to live in your own supervillain lair? And are you tired of waiting for somebody to build a practical seaborne arcology? Then seasteading might be for you!
Sure, it's not exactly supervillainy. But this writeup in Wired does makes it sound like a step in the right direction. And best of all? People have begun to invest in this idea.

Why become a seasteader? Patri Friedman -- an engineer from Google, grandson of a Nobel Laureate, and Executive Director of the brand-new Seasteading Institute -- says:


Government is an industry with a really high barrier to entry. [...] You basically need to win an election or a revolution to try a new one. That's a ridiculous barrier to entry. And it's got enormous customer lock-in. People complain about their cellphone plans that are like two years, but think of the effort that it takes to change your citizenship.

Wow. When you have dot-com billionaires throwing money behind statements like, "Government is an industry with a really high barrier to entry," can death rays and hollowed-out volcanoes be far behind? Seriously.

Of course, the Institute's extensive literature on the subject of seasteading doesn't mention death rays and world domination. (Yet.) It does, however, mention pirates, and the possibility of rogue seasteads turning mercenary.

Huh.

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Comments (3)
Rio by the Sea-oh! - S.C. Butler, Sunday, May 25 2008, 10:03 AM
Maybe next year's Rio Hondo should be in the South Pacific, seasteading.

Re: Rio by the Sea-oh! - Ian, Sunday, May 25 2008, 10:11 AM
I'd vote for that. Rather than hiking to waterfalls, we can take afternoon side trips on inflatable Zodiacs to local atolls.


Re: Rio by the Sea-oh! - S.C. Butler, Monday, May 26 2008, 06:34 AM
And battle robot sharks instead of Gorhana!

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Interviews
Interview with SFX Magazine
Unwalkers interview [English | French ]
Interview with Speculate! Podcast Interview with Adventures in SciFi Publishing
Ian Tregillis on the Sword and Laser Podcast
Ian Tregillis on John Scalzi's The Big Idea
Interview with Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Interview with SFRevu
Interview with Mad Hatter Book Review
Interview with Apex Books

Interview at Literary Musings Interview with Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
An interview with the authors of Busted Flush at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Interview with Travis Heermann at The Write Line
9-way interview with the contributors to the Wild Cards novel Inside Straight at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Interview in the February, 2008 newsletter of the Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
An extended interview with Ian Tregillis by Ty Franck, on www.wildcardsbooks.com.

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