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r Peter Thiel was so inspired by Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand's novel about free- market capitalism - that he's trying to make its title a reality. The Silicon Valley billionaire has funnelled $1.25million to the Seasteading Institute, an organisation that aspires to launch a floating colony into international wat

ideas,' Mr Friedman said. He predicted that full-time settlement will follow in about seven years. EFTA_R1_00476393 EFTA01985759 But while some Ayn Rand acolytes may think the idea is brilliant, it's not without its critics. Margaret Crawford, an expert on urban planning and a professor of architectu

s://nyti.ms/2D6krmw TECHNOLOGY Peter Thiel's Money Talks, in Contentious Ways. But What Does He Say? By DAVID STREITFELD MARCH 7, 2018 Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley's homegrown Cassandra. He warned for years that the big tech companies were arrogant and clueless and less good for mankind than they believed. Comeupp

to a request for comment. Mr. Thiel is routinely labeled a libertarian. On a bookshelf in the apartment, as if in confirmation, is a hardback copy of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," the bible of the movement. A gift, he said. A lesser-known but possibly deeper influence was the French philosopher René Girard, wh