Kleros-Blue Frontiers Partnership: Decentralized Justice for Floating Cities

New Governance Models for New Human Communities…

In the book Sovereign Individual (1999), James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg predicted the emergence of new types of communities where like minded individuals would live together beyond the limits of modern nation states (in that book, they also predicted the creation of a cryptographic privacy enabling currency, although they didn’t call it Bitcoin).

Those predictions, made as early as the 1990s, started to materialize in recent years in a number of initiatives connected to charter cities and even countries such as Liberland.

Founded in 2017, Blue Frontiers is a fascinating project working in this space. Its vision is to develop floating cities (‘Seasteads’) that will help combat sea level rise, an industry that is expected to grow significantly in the next 30 years. Their technology could potentially enable coastal habitants and entire island nations to add habitable land on the ocean for their residents.