Headline Nov. 17/ ''' * FICTION SCIENCE FIXTURE * '''

''' * FICTION SCIENCE FIXTURE * '''

TO THE AWARE AND DISCERNING : you all, the students of the world, would acknowledge that  -some how and some way-

*The World Students Society has finally changed course from *Floating Science Fiction to Science Blueprint*.............

!WOW! riding the waves of time, sufferings, and incompleteness, has somehow, begun taking shape in the minds of students.

!WOW! is no more a bad jokes punchline.    

While rendering in the form of Global Election is soon to follow, just as it did in Seasteading of the  Floating Island Projects in French Polynesia. 

Blue Frontiers will build and operate the islands, with a goal of building about a dozen by 2020. 

It is an idea at once audacious and simplistic, a seeming impossibility that is now technologically within reach:

*Cities floating on international waters -independent, self-sustaining-nation-states at sea*. 

Long the stuff of science fiction, so called  seasteading has in recent years matured from pure fantasy  into something approaching reality, and there are-

Companies, academics, architects and even a government working together on a prototype by 2020.

At the center of the effort is the Seasteading Institute, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco.

Founded in 2008, the group has spent about a decade trying to convince the public that seasteading  is not an entirely crazy idea.

That has not always been easy. 

At times, the story of the seasteading movement seems to lapse into self parody. Burning Man gatherings in the Nevada desert are an inspiration, while references to the-  Kevin Costner film  ''Waterworld''  are inevitable.  

The project is being partially funded by an initial coin offering, a new concept now sweeping Silicon Valley and Wall Street in which can be raised by creaming and selling virtual currency.

And yet in 2017, with sea levels rising because of climate change and established political orders  around the world teetering under the strains of populism, seasteading can seem not just practical, but downright appealing.

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 mean 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.''

The term Seasteading has been around since at least 1981, when the avid sailor Ken Numeyer wrote a book, ''Sailing the Farm,'' that discussed living sustainably aboard a sailboat.

Two decades later, the idea attracted the attention of Patri Friedman, the grandson of the economist  Milton Friedman, who seized on the notion.

Mr. Friedman. a freethinker who had founded ''intentional communities'' while in college, was living in Silicon Valley at the time and was inspired to think big.

So in 2008, he quit his job at Google and co-founded the Seasteading Institute with seed funding from Peter Thiel, the libertarian billionaire.

In a 2009 essay, Mr. Thiel described Seasteading as a long shot, but one worth taking.

''Between cyberspace and outerspace lies the possibility of settling the oceans,'' he wrote.

The investments from Mr.Thiel generated a flurry of media attention, but for several years after its founding, the Seasteading Institute did not amount to much.

A prototype planned for San Francisco Bay in 2010 never materialized, and Seasteading became a  punch line to jokes about the techno-utopian fantasies gone awry, even becoming a plotline in the  HBO series ''Silicon Valley''.

But over the years, the core idea seasteading -that a floating city in international waters might give people a chance to redesign society and government-

Steadily attracted more and more adherents.

In 2011, Mr. Quirk, an author was at Burning Man when he first heard about seasteading.

He was intrigued by the idea and spent the next year learning about the concept.

For Mr. Quirk, Burning Man, where innovators gather, was not just his introduction to seasteading. It was a model for the kind of society that seasteading might enable.

''Anyone who goes to Burning Man multiple times became fascinated by the way that rules don't observe their usual parameters,'' he said.

The Honor and Serving of the latest Operational Research on the future of the world and societies continues.

With respectful dedication to the Great Thinkers of our Times, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students Society and Twitter -!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:

''' International Floatings '''

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