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Living on the sea

Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 2:13 pm
by ReHerakhte
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.

Re: Living on the sea

Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 1:31 pm
by Morthrai
ReHerakhte wrote: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.

Would that be the Raft from Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" I wonder? Certainly worth borrowing in some form :)

Re: Living on the sea

Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 12:19 am
by ReHerakhte
It could very well be "Snow Crash" I'm thinking of in regards to drifting ships, I definitely read the book (and a few others from Stephenson), still have it in a box somewhere.
Thanks for the reminder :) I went digging around on technovolgy.com and found some other references to seasteading that may interest people.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-F ... wsNum=3639
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-F ... wsNum=1742