http://clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/clipcast/Oceanography/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/clipcast/Oceanography/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/84B251C4-FED6-4A37-AEFA-CA417183EEA3/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/">rmowery</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/19/magazines/business2/ocean_real_estate.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2007020205" title="http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/19/magazines/business2/ocean_real_estate.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2007020205">money.cnn.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1 class="storyheadline">Ocean real estate: The next boom?</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 class="storysubhead">With land getting so crowded, the age-old fantasy of sea-based living is becoming reality. Business 2.0 dives in. </H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>We remember those pledges, ruefully. But with all of our attention on the skies above, we tend to forget about the seas below and another once-popular 21st century prediction: that one day we'll be living on and under the oceans.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- We've been promised many things in the world of Tomorrowland: jet packs, flying cars, picnics on the moon.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The idea isn't so far-fetched. As Earth gets increasingly crowded and polluted, some 225 million square miles or prime real estate representing 71 percent of the planet's surface is largely unused. It's remarkable considering the oceans promise plenty of living space, fresh seafood, entertainment, and desalinized water. Surely, technology can make this happen.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>In 1964, at the New York World's Fair, <A href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=GM">General Motors</A> (<A href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/chart/chart.html?symb=GM">Charts</A>) sponsored an exhibit of the "near future." The model featured a city 10,000 feet under the sea, with atomic submarines cruising in and out of the Hotel Atlantis and nearby "Aquacopters" mining for minerals and drilling for oil.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Turns out, it can and it soon will - if not quite the way we first imagined. But before diving into what the near future holds, let's resurface what the distant past once promised.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, meanwhile, was busy chasing his own underwater dreams. His experimental habitat, called Conshelf, was built 85 feet below the ocean's surface and was intended to be the future home of a new human species, dubbed Homo Aquaticus, with gills for lungs.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ocean/" rel="tag">ocean</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/housing/" rel="tag">housing</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/real+estate/" rel="tag">real estate</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ocean+floor/" rel="tag">ocean floor</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/water+world/" rel="tag">water world</a></div>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/19/magazines/business2/ocean_real_estate.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2007020205Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:58:55 GMT