“Peter Thiel favors ‘seasteading,’ establishing floating cities in the middle of the ocean. Balaji Srinivasan, until recently a general partner at a16z, has called for the ‘ultimate exit.’ Arguing that the U.S. is as fossilized as Microsoft, and that the Valley has become stronger than Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., combined, Srinivasan believes that its denizens should ‘build an opt-in society, ultimately outside the U.S., run by technology.’ [..] The game in Silicon Valley is prescience, and then it’s removing every obstacle to the ferocious clarity of your vision: incumbents, regulations, folkways, people. Can you not just see the future but summon it?”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advance-man