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Seasteading is making a comeback — but these utopian paradises on the high seas have a history of failure

They promised utopian paradises, unshackled by governments and buoyed by tech. What they built instead was a costly illusion. Holly Baxter reports on how seasteading started, unraveled and is now rising again in popularity

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