By Andrew Dalton
Venture capitalist and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel is inching closer towards realizing his dream of creating a government-free floating island utopia for tech startups off the coast of San Francisco. When last we checked in with Thiel and his cohort, former Google engineer and seasteading activist Patri Friedman, the idea was little more than a libertarian speech with some artist’s renderings attached. Now, riding a wave of investment capital from Thiel, the project has a website , a course to set sail, and a lineup of nearly 100 international technology companies that are ready to literally get onboard.