Living on the sea
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 2:13 pm
An article discussing the potential for future populations to inhabit floating communities on the seas and oceans of the world.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2013110 ... -the-ocean
Reminds me of a number of references in various cyberpunk novels I've read, one whose title escapes me had a mass of drifting vessels that had been tied together but had no functioning motors to allow control over where they went. No government would claim responsibility for them and so they existed as a sort of "nationless" country upon the ocean.
"Freezone" by John Shirley, by no means a great novel did have an immense floating island that existed as its own nation in the Atlantic. This was the "Freezone" of the title. It served as the inspiration for a Corporate Free-State (that was a sort of UN of corporations) built on an artificial atoll in the Pacific in my first Dark Conspiracy campaign.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/2013110 ... -the-ocean
Reminds me of a number of references in various cyberpunk novels I've read, one whose title escapes me had a mass of drifting vessels that had been tied together but had no functioning motors to allow control over where they went. No government would claim responsibility for them and so they existed as a sort of "nationless" country upon the ocean.
"Freezone" by John Shirley, by no means a great novel did have an immense floating island that existed as its own nation in the Atlantic. This was the "Freezone" of the title. It served as the inspiration for a Corporate Free-State (that was a sort of UN of corporations) built on an artificial atoll in the Pacific in my first Dark Conspiracy campaign.