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In Defense of the New - Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg

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The future is being crafted out on the edge. Are you paying attention?

In 2019, just over twelve miles off the coast of Phuket, Thailand, Chad and Nadia Elwartowski settled into their new home. Chad and Nadia are seasteaders, part of a niche, ambitious, and libertarian-flavored movement geared towards building floating cities. Because international waters aren’t under any state’s exclusive jurisdiction, seasteaders could theoretically establish new independent states, free from government interference. Chad and Nadia made history as the first to live out the seasteading ideal, hoping to prove that living autonomously could be a radically different and better…

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