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Silicon Valley has long been known as a hub for tech innovation, but unfriendly US immigration policies sometimes keep foreign innovators out. Marty Max, a Cuban immigrant, and Dario Mutabdzija, of the former Yugoslavia, have proposed a floating city for foreign innovators to get around this problem. Blueseed will be a converted cruise ship moored in international waters some 22 km from San Francisco. As Michael Posner at The Globe and Mail points out Blueseed is not the first attempt at seasteading.
Image from The Globe and Mail
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