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, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.
0:13.0	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.0	Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:21.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Feature Tech Podcast. I'm your host Julia Lamar and I have with me today a very exciting guest. We have
0:35.6	Natalie Meza Garcia. She is a Sea Evangelist at Blue Frontiers and she is doing her
0:40.9	PhD studies on the floating islands project.
0:44.3	Welcome Natalie.
0:45.5	Hi Julia, thank you very much for having me here.
0:48.8	I'm so excited to learn more about what you guys are doing out there. So why you give us a little overview about first Blue Frontiers?
0:57.0	Sure. So Blue Frontiers is a seestating company.
1:02.0	C-Stating means to create knowing human settlements on the ocean,
1:06.8	mainly to tackle two problems. Firstly, the lack of innovation in traditional governance.
1:13.0	And secondly, the fact that global warming will increase sea levels
1:19.0	and that will
1:25.0	either flood or sink.
1:28.0	what we do is in our business is to kick-start
1:32.0	that future economy of floating infrastructure that will
1:35.8	eventually be a reality both because of seal-el rise but also because at some point individuals will be more conscious of the
1:47.2	possibility to improve governance by means of curating human communities are dynamic and where the geography allows people to
1:57.4	vote with their houses.
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