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Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it..
You can't create the future unless you imagine it..
I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments found….
Thinking about seasteading requires us to free ourselves of these broad political categories we're stuck with on land. People can make whatever commu….
Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves however….
The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick of their violent….
Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and ….
Seasteads are man-made islands that float permanently on the ocean with any measure of a political autonomy. They would essentially be startup societ….
If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for ….
I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our coasts, a….
We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age..
Seasteaders bring a Silicon Valley sensibility to the problem of governments not innovating sufficiently. Innovators are held back and stymied by exi….
Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move there. If I was a billionaire I wouldn….
Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably..
Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a Google….
Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and….
Americans are very mobile and move around and choose the communities they want. On the ocean people would be even more mobile and empowered to link u….
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations..
Once you provide people with a platform to start their own country, every conceivable type of innovator reaches out to you with their own idea..
That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads ….
People can leave seasteads, or people can choose them, and people can create new seasteads if they want. This fluidity will engage an evolutionary ma….