Billionaire Funding New Country


	Billionaire Funding New Country

Andrew Farrell

5-20-2008 1:40 PM

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Andrew Farrell says:

He was right with PayPal. Is he onto something again with man-made island countries?

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Tired of the United States and the other 190-odd nations on Earth?
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If a small team of Silicon Valley millionaires get their way, in a few years, you could have a new option for global citizenship: A permanent, quasi-sovereign nation floating in international waters.
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"Decades from now, those looking back at the start of the century will understand that Seasteading was an obvious step towards encouraging the development of more efficient, practical public-sector models around the world," Thiel <A href="http://seasteading.org/stay-in-touch/press-releases/introducing-the-seasteading-institute">said in a statement</A>. 
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