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FW: Sci Fi Cities.

Just because Lowell mentioned you!
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From: Lowell Wood [mailto:████████]
Sent: Su=day, August 28, 2011 9:05 PM
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Cc: 'B=ll Gates'; Boris Nikolic (BGC3)
Subject: RE: Sci Fi Cities.=/o:p>

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Of course, the income deri=ed from licensing fishing, etc. in the "exclusive economic zonesR=1; of 200 mile radius around each such island would be additional...but th=se could be employed to offset the substantial lawyers' bills,-c;Washington representation" fees, etc., etc. that would be involved =n operating such an "instant sovereign!" J [And, to be sure, "The essence of sovereign=y lies in its enforcement" — but the famous international arms=bazaars can instantly outfit-&-staff the navy of any newbie-among-nati=ns that has a reasonable line-of-credit...1

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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 20118:12 PM
T=: Lowell Wood; Boris Nikolic (BGC3)
Cc: 'Bill Gates'
S=bject: RE: Sc! Fi Cities.
Importance: Low<=p>

Not sure this is about autonomy?

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l'= certain this would be better than life in Mogadishu. And probably cheaper=#8230;

Think of all the cool innovations that would follow — <=o:p>

1.&n=sp; Energy requirements would be about the same but necess=rily renewable

3. <span>Sanitation would totally chan=e!

4. Health would matter since living in such =ight quarters means communicable disease becomes real again (for everyone!=

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I think it would be cool to offer this up to Somalia or somewhere desper=te and see what happens.

Rich people don't innovate as quickly!!

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From: Lowell Wood <= href="mailto:[mailto:  ]">[mailto:  ]
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:15 PM
To: B=ris Nikolic (BGC3)
Cc:  ; 'Bill Gates'
Subjec=: RE: Sci Fi Cities.

From: Boris Nikolic [mailto:  ]</a>
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:47 PM
To: ; Bill Gates
Cc: Lowell Wood (  <mailto: >
Subject: RE: Sci Fi Cit=es.
Importance: Low

Some Libertarians tried to create these new community (with autonomo=s structure, no taxation and even own currency) — Since islands can,=under international law, only be claimed if they are at least 30 cm above =he high tide point, some have even attempted to build sovereign islands, l=ke real-estate millionaire Michael Oliver's attempt at building a libertar=an city-state called the Republic of Minerva in the southern Pacific Ocean= Not sure how anyone could get significant autonomy.

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http://en.wikipedia.o=g/wiki/Republic_of_Minerva

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Perhaps it would be better that Peter =ives more to HIV!

Boris

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Sent: S=nday, August 28, 2011 4:24 PM
To: Bill Gates
Cc: Boris=Nikolic; Lowell Wood <mailto > )
Subject: Sci Fi Cities.
Importance: L=w

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Pet=r Thiel's response to urban development. Neat to think about, cool p=ctures anyway.

$1.25 million investment into this (sketchy) organ=zation on his part is probably too small to even build one of these but at=least he's trying!

What I think would be cool would be to tr= this in Africa. Even cancer cells stop multiplying when you confine their=space. :)

Mission: To=further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomous ocean commun=ties, enabling innovation with new political and social systems.

<= href="http://www.seasteading.org/">http://www.seasteading.org/

• Ocean state would have no welfare, no minimum wage, and few restr=ctions on weapons

• Platforms would house =70 people and hundreds could eventually join together

PayPal-founder Pete= Thiel was so inspired by Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand's novel about free-mar=et capitalism - that he's trying to make its title a reality.4=pan>

The Silicon Valley bi=lionaire has funnelled $1.25million to the Seasteading Institute, an organ=sation that aspires to launch a floating colony into international waters,=freeing them and like-minded thinkers to live by libertarian ideals.<=o:p>

Mr Thiel recen=ly told Details magazine: 'The United States Constitution had things you c=uld do at the beginning that you couldn't do later. So the question is, ca= you go back to the beginning of things? How do you start over?'

Life on the =cean wave: A design for one of the floating cities which Peter Thiel wants=to start constructing next year off the coast of San Francisco<=span>

Green land: An aer=al view of the city, complete with landcaped gardens. Mr Thiel believes ma=y of the islands could eventually be joined together

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Design for living: This island eve= has a high-level helicopter pad. The cities would be constructed on oil-r=g like terminals

The floating sovereign nations that Mr Thiel imagines would be bu=lt on oil-rig-like platforms anchored in areas free of regulation, laws, a=d moral conventions.

The Seasteading Institute says it will 'give people the freedo= to choose the government they want instead of being stuck with the govern=ent they get'.

Mr Theil, the venture capitalist who famously helped Facebook expand=beyond the Harvard campus, called Seasteading an 'open frontier for experi=enting with new ideas for government'.

After making his first investment in the pro=ect in 2008, Mr Thiel said: 'Decades from now, those looking back at the s=art of the century will understand that Seasteading was an obvious step to=ards encouraging the development of more efficient, practical public recto= models around the world.

'We're at a fascinating juncture: the nature of go=ernment is about to change at a very fundamental lever=/p>

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Light city: Peter Thiel cal=ed the project, Seasteading, an 'open a frontier for experimenting with ne= ideas for government'

Mr Thiel said: 'the nature of government is about to chang= at a very fundamental level'

Mr Thiel and his colleagues say their ocean state wou=d have no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restric=ions on weapons.

Aiming to have tens of millions of residents by 2050, the Seastead=ng Institute says architectural plans for a prototype involve a movable, d=esel-powered structure with room for 270 residents.

=p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The long-term plan would be to=have dozens and eventually hundreds of the platforms linked together.

Patri Friedm=n, a former Google engineer who is working on the project told Details tha= they hope to launch a flotilla of offices off the San Francisco coast nex= year.

=Big ideas start as weird ideas,' Mr Friedman said.

He predicted that full-time setlement will follow in about seven years.

But while some Ayn Rand acolytes may think=the idea is brilliant, it's not without its critics.

Margaret Crawford, an expert =n urban planning and a professor of architecture at Berkeley, told Details= 'it's a silly idea without any urban-planning implications whatsoever.' <=:p>

Mr Thiel told an audie=ce at the Seasteading Institute Conference in 2009 that: 'There are quite = lot of people who think it's not possible.

'That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry=about those people very much, because since they don't think it's possible=they won't take us very seriously. And they will not actually try to stop =s until it's too late.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024761/Atlas-Shrugged-Silicon-V=lley-billionaire-reveals-plan-launch-floating-start-country-coast-San-Fran=isco.html#ixzz1WMuYqS7n <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024761/At=as-Shrugged-Silicon-Valley-billionaire-reveals-plan-launch-floating-start-=ountry-coast-San-Francisco.html#ixzz1WMuYqS7n>

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