Greenland holds critical minerals; but it also provides a seemingly blank slate
for the kinds of settler colonial fantasies that another set of Trump allies, the
tech bros, have long been cultivating: charter cities, “network states” or even
“seasteading”, based on a combination of libertarian ideology and limitless
Al experiments. A company called Praxis - with funds from Peter Thiel - has
been pursuing the idea of starting new countries with cryptocurrency; one of
its founders, Dryden Brown, went on record claiming that “Praxis would like
to support Greenland’s development by coordinating talent, companies, and
capital to help secure the Arctic, extract critical resources, terraform the land
with advanced technology to make it more habitable, and build a mythical
city in the North”.
Greenland holds critical minerals; but it also provides a seemingly blank slate for the kinds of settler colonial fantasies that another set of Trump allies, the tech bros, have long been cultivating: charter cities, “network states” or even “seasteading”, based on a combination of libertarian ideology and limitless Al experiments. A company called Praxis - with funds from Peter Thiel - has been pursuing the idea of starting new countries with cryptocurrency; one of its founders, Dryden Brown, went on record claiming that “Praxis would like to support Greenland’s development by coordinating talent, companies, and capital to help secure the Arctic, extract critical resources, terraform the land with advanced technology to make it more habitable, and build a mythical city in the North”.
Greenland holds critical minerals; but it also provides a seemingly blank slate
for the kinds of settler colonial fantasies that another set of Trump allies, the
tech bros, have long been cultivating: charter cities, “network states” or even
“seasteading”, based on a combination of libertarian ideology and limitless
Al experiments. A company called Praxis - with funds from Peter Thiel - has
been pursuing the idea of starting new countries with cryptocurrency; one of
its founders, Dryden Brown, went on record claiming that “Praxis would like
to support Greenland’s development by coordinating talent, companies, and
capital to help secure the Arctic, extract critical resources, terraform the land
with advanced technology to make it more habitable, and build a mythical
city in the North”.
Greenland holds critical minerals; but it also provides a seemingly blank slate for the kinds of settler colonial fantasies that another set of Trump allies, the tech bros, have long been cultivating: charter cities, “network states” or even “seasteading”, based on a combination of libertarian ideology and limitless Al experiments. A company called Praxis - with funds from Peter Thiel - has been pursuing the idea of starting new countries with cryptocurrency; one of its founders, Dryden Brown, went on record claiming that “Praxis would like to support Greenland’s development by coordinating talent, companies, and capital to help secure the Arctic, extract critical resources, terraform the land with advanced technology to make it more habitable, and build a mythical city in the North”.