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Homesteads on the sea? New experimental forms of government? Patri Friedman, ex-Google- engineer and grandson of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, has some pretty crazy-sounding ideas about the near future. But he also convinced Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to invest in his Seasteading Institute to realize these ideas. We quizzed him about whether he really thinks thousands of people will follow him to live on the ocean, if nations can truly be developed like software, and whether his fellow Americans consider him a radical [more]