Imagine, if you will, New Orleans in the far distant future. The polar ice caps are melting. Sea level continues to rise at an alarming rate. 
 
What is a populace to do? We could build higher like in Venice. We could all live on boats or even floating piles of debris.
 
We could grow gills and fins and return to the water as merpeople.
 
Or, maybe, just maybe, we could figure out to way to turn tentacles to our advantage.
 
Imagine a Brave New World of Swimming Cottages: the French Quarter on the move.
 
Dare to dream.