What should actually happen is that the US-based tech crowd should put together a political action committee and start lobbying. That would have a better chance of real-world impact.

No, no they should not. You really don't want to be involved with those kinda guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading

It's the sort of hyper-liberterianism that looks and sounds like a passable option until you consider it for more than a second. And then there are the proponents for this kind of insanity...