Nathalie Mezza-Garcia – Seavangelesse at Blue Frontiers – PhD Candidate at Warwick University

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A floating Pacific island with its own government, cryptocurrency and 300 houses could be in the near future. The Floating Island Project plans to create off-shore housing that uses its own currency and operates outside of government regulations. The project is a pilot program in partnership with the government of French Polynesia. A long-term vision for the project is to have hundreds of countries floating on the ocean. Blue Frontiers are building sustainable floating islands to address sea level rise and negotiate special governing frameworks to catalyze innovation in governance.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.6	Future Technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.
0:13.2	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.8	We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,
0:22.7	blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:27.2	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Future Tech Podcast.
0:30.6	I'm your host, Julieta Lamar, and I have with me today a very exciting guest.
0:35.2	We have Natalie Meza Garcia.
0:37.4	She is a se evangelist at Blue
0:39.3	Frontiers and she is doing her PhD studies on the Floating Islands project. Welcome, Natalie.
0:45.9	Hi, Julia. Thank you very much for having me here. I'm so excited to learn more about what
0:51.7	you guys are doing out there. So why give us a little overview
0:54.9	about first Blue Frontiers? Sure. So Blue Frontiers is a sea-steading company.
1:02.1	Seestating means to create loading human settlements on the ocean, mainly to tackle two problems.
1:09.0	Firstly, the lack of innovation in traditional governance.
1:13.6	And secondly, the fact that global warming will increase sea levels,
1:19.7	and that will mean that in the future, many communities, many islands will either float or sink.
1:27.0	So what we do in our business is to... communities, many islands will either float or sink.
1:35.1	So what we do is in our business is to kickstart that future economy of floating infrastructure that will eventually be a reality, both because of sea level rise, but also because
1:42.5	at some point individuals will be more conscious of the
1:47.2	possibility to improve governance by means of creating human communities that are dynamic and
1:54.4	where the geography allows people to vote with their houses. Wow, that's that's quite a lot of breakthrough thinking.
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