Pay Pal is also founder of the early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, has donated $ 1.25 million for the floating island in international waters. This ambitious project is targeting the construction of a new country that was not bound by any law except the system of international law.
Details Magazine peeling, Thiel became a major proponent of the Institute which organized the contest Seasteading development of this island. This island will be built on the foundations of offshore oil rigs in the international sea. From this island, will develop a new law that is free from the law of any country as there was no minimum wage or looseness of weapons possession.
“Many people who call it impossible,” Thiel said as quoted by Details, August 2011. “And this is a great idea. We do not have to think about those people because when they think is not possible then they do not take us seriously,” he said.
Patri Friedman of the Institute Seasteading said the group will launch an office park in the waters of San Francisco next year. Settlements will be established next seven.
Thiel is not this just make a scene. This year, he also launched a fund of U.S. $ 1.5 billion contest to direct entrepreneurs just missed lectures.
Meanwhile, another Silicon Valley boss, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced last June will finance the project “Clock of the Long Now.” Clock that is built on a mountain in western Texas is designed to continue beating during the past 10,000 years into the future.
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