Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

- Joe Quirk

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…

- Joe Quirk

Seasteads are man-made islands that float permanently on the ocean with any measure of a political autonomy. They would essentially be startup societ…

- Joe Quirk

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…

- Joe Quirk

Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves however…

- Joe Quirk

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…

- Joe Quirk

If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for …

- Joe Quirk

Thinking about seasteading requires us to free ourselves of these broad political categories we're stuck with on land. People can make whatever commu…

- Joe Quirk

Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and …

- Joe Quirk