Survey: Future Habitats

By | October 10, 2010

Later this week we’ll be talking with Max Marty from the Seasteading Institute on FastForward Radio. A couple of weeks ago, Brian Wang had us thinking about domed cities.

Seasteads and domed cities are two possible examples of future habitats — and there are several others both from science fiction and from serious future scenarios. We’ve listed a few of them here. Which of them do you think is most likely to be deployed in the next 50 years? Which would you prefer to live in?

The results are linked immediately below, but no fair looking until you’ve answered yourself!

“Question 1 Results

“Question 2 Results

 

  • dusty.styx

    What would be the most logical vector for seasteading?
    Mining the sea floor, rocket launch facilities, tax free data centers, other?

    Also what status would they hold as nations? It would be easy to see these as a threat to land based nations, from mundane “loss of jobs” to full blown terrorist nations. What’s to say that they wont just be hit by an “over reaction”?