Will O'Brien joins MTS to discuss why the ocean lost its cultural cachet as a frontier after the 1960s and how Ulysses is working to revive it, where the US and China currently stand on autonomous underwater vehicles, and why the technological enablers for seasteading are only now becoming viable.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:01) Ulysses: Building an Autonomous Robotics Platform for the "Ocean Company"

(01:52) Vertical Applications: From Reef Conservation to Navy Defense

(04:31) Mine Clearing in the Strait of Hormuz and Local Infrastructure

(07:15) Historical Anomalies: Why Humanity Stopped Exploring the Oceans

(11:46) Geopolitics of the Deep: Undersea Drone Capabilities and Global Competition

(14:35) Seasteading 2.0: Starlink, Autonomous Logistics, and Ocean Habitation

(20:00) The Hamilton Society: Social Institutions and Professional Dignity in SF

(25:00) The Ultimate Vision: Robot Swarms and Fully Instrumented Oceans

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Will O'Brien on the Ocean Drone Gap, US vs China, and the Hamilton Society | MTS Live

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Will O'Brien on the Ocean Drone Gap, US vs China, and the Hamilton Society | MTS Live