News:
- Peter Thiel Convenes His League of Extraordinary Wackaloons (Forbes, December 15, 2011)
- Seasteading: Cities on the Ocean (The Economist Technology Quarterly, December, 3, 2011)
- Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands (Yahoo! News, August 16, 2011) – please see our official position on this article
- Ocean cities? So says Milton Friedman’s grandson (CBS News, June 3, 2011)
- Names You Need To Know In 2011: Patri Friedman (Forbes.com, November 2010; Forbes Magazine January 2011. Circulation 900,000.)
- 20,000 Nation Above the Sea. Is floating the last, best hope for liberty? (Reason Magazine, July 2009. Circulation 60,000.)
- Welcome Aboard A Brand New Country (The Sunday Times, March 15, 2009. Circulation 1,200,000.)
- City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away (CNN.com, March 2009)
- Live Free or Drown (Wired Magazine Article, January 19, 2009, Circulation 790,000.)
Audio:
- Patri Friedman on floating cities (Interview on BBC’s One Planet, April 29, 2011. Patri’s contribution starts 11 minutes into the show. Download the .mp3 file here.)
- Innovation on the Ocean (Interview Podcast from Steppin’ Off The Edge with Max Marty, April 3, 2011)
- Patri Friedman on Seasteading (Interview Podcast from Surprisingly Free, March 22, 2011)
- Patri Friedman on Seasteading (Interview Podcast from EconTalk, October 13, 2008)
Video:
- Seasteading on NBC Bay Area News (NBC Bay Area News, November 9, 2011)
- Free Cities and Seasteading on The Stossel Show (The Stossel Show, September, 2011)
- Direct Impact: NBC interview with Patri Friedman (NBC LA News, June 2011)
- Non-profit floats around idea of high seas communities (ABC News San Francisco, December 2010)
- Seasteading on CBS Sunday Morning’s “The Fast Draw” (CBS Sunday Morning, November 2010, approx 5,000,000 viewers)
- Seasteading Ambassador Charles Peralo on Adam v. The Man (Russia Today, August 9, 2011, segment starts at 6:30 and runs until 10:30)
- Patri Friedman on The Stossel Show (The Stossel Show, February 2010)
Coverage Archive
English
News:
- The Billionaire King of Techtopia (Details Magazine August 11, 2011) – please see our official position on this article
- Innovator Patri Friedman will speak of his concept of floating colonies on the ocean at ideacity in Toronto. (The Star, June 13, 2011)
- Seasteading: (Floating Cities) On The Hunt For A Location (turnstyle, June 6, 2011)
- An ‘Apple or Google country’ out at sea? (CNET, June 3, 2011)
- Patri Friedman makes waves with ‘seasteading’ plan (SF Gate, June 1, 2011)
- PayPal Founder and Facebook Backer Peter Thiel on The Next Big Thing, and Why He Thinks College Isn’t Worth It (ABC News, May 27, 2011)
- Seasteading: Striking at the Root of Bad Government (The Freeman, March, 2011)
- Life After Facebook (Forbes, February 14, 2011. Circulation 900,000.)
- Charity Reinvented: Disruptive approach to philanthropy (The Economic Times of India, January 7, 2011. Circulation 620,000.)
- Names You Need To Know In 2011: Patri Friedman (Forbes online, November 2010. Forbes Magazine January 2011, Circulation 900,000.)
- Looking to the Future with Smarts, Money (Washington Post Sunday, December 26, 2010, Circulation 798,000)
- Silicon Valley billionaire backs futuristic philanthropy (San Jose Mercury News, December 6, 2010. Circulation 230,000.)
- Unhappy with the government? Follow the lead of ‘Sealand’ (Ottawa Metro, June 29, 2010)
- Seasteading: the great escape (Prospect, March 26, 2010)
- The Biggest Idea Ever Floated (Mountain View Voice, November 30, 2009)
- Laissez-faire at Sea (Globe and Mail, July 18, 2009. Circulation 300,000.)
- 20,000 Nation Above the Sea. Is floating the last, best hope for liberty? (Reason Magazine, July 2009)
- A Fluid Definition of Self-Sufficiency (New York Times, June 4, 2009. Circulation 877,000.)
- Welcome Aboard A Brand New Country (The Sunday Times, March 15, 2009. Circulation 1,200,000.)
- Live Free or Drown (Wired Magazine Article, January 19, 2009, Circulation 790,000.)
- Explorers in the Valley still charting new territory (Irish Times, September 19, 2008. Circulation 105,000.)
- Back to the Future with Peter Thiel (National Review Online, January 20, 2011)
- Seasteading, the future of politics? (The Economic Voice, January 1st, 2011)
- Peter Thiel, Facebook, PayPal Tycoon, Embraces Sci-Fi Future (Huffington Post, December 25, 2010)
- How to create a startup country (KurzweilAI.net, December 23, 2010)
- Let a Thousand Nations Bloom, at Sea (Forbes.com, December 8, 2010)
- Libertarians Celebrate Freedom With ‘Burning Man on the Water’ (Wired.com Gadget Lab, August 9, 2010)
- Do Libertarians Belong at Sea? (Reason Foundation, August 4, 2010)
- “Seasteaders” Take First Step Toward Colonizing The Oceans (CBS News, October 11, 2009)
- Response To Climate Change: Seasteading (Mother Jones Blog, August 4, 2009)
- Are Ocean Societies the New Frontier for Sustainable Living? (Inhabitat, July 9, 2009)
- The DIY Mini Nation (New York Times Ideas Blog, June 10, 2009)
- Five Designers’ Visions for Cities at Sea (Fast Company, May 26, 2010)
- Future Sea Cities: Freedom’s Final Frontier in Pictures (National Geographic, May 2010)
- Seastead, Ahoy! (PopSci.com, February 18, 2009)
- City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away (CNN.com, March 10, 2009)
- The next frontier: ‘Seasteading’ the oceans (CNET, February 2, 2009)
- The Seasteading Institute encourages floating nations, hosts conference (VentureBeat, October 6, 2008) Ars Technica: Seasteading: engineering the long tail of nations (interview with Patri, June 9, 2008)
- How-to set up your own floating micro-nation (BoingBoing Gadgets, May 27, 2008)
- Gizmodo: How to Build Your Own Sea-Based Country for Fun and Profit (blog interviewing Patri, May 27, 2008). Gizmodo is one of the 10 most popular blogs in the world.
- Seasteading: The New Frontier (WorldHum, May 20, 2008)
- Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies (Wired.com article, May 19, 2008)
- Accelerating Future (blog interviewing Patri, May 14, 2008)
- Homesteading on the High Seas: Floating Burning Man, “jurisdictional arbitrage,” and other adventures in anarchism (Reason Online article, April 28, 2008)
- Seasteading (Marginal Revolution post, April 25, 2008).
Audio:
- The Peter Schiff Show (Interview with Patri Friedman, Jan 10, 2011)
- FastForward Radio “Our Future at Sea” (Interview with Max Marty, October 13, 2010)
- Freakonomics Radio “What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?” (interview with Patri Friedman, March 24, 2010. Top 10 podcast on iTunes.)
- Wiretap on CBC’s Radio One: “No Man Is An Island” (interview with Patri Friedman, Nov 16, 2009. Listenership of 350,000 in 2008.)
- Afternoons with Jim Mora (Interview with Patri, Radio New Zealand National, 13 October 2009)
- The Bob Zadek Show (Hour-long radio interview with Patri Friedman, September 13, 2009)
- Exploring Geopolitics “Permanent Autonomous Ocean Communities” (Interview with Patri Friedman, July 2009)
- The Wall Street Shuffle Podcast (Interview with Patri Friedman, June 10, 2009)
- Voting Yourself Off The Island (Interview Podcast from The Cato Policy Forum, April 8, 2009)
- Future Tense (ABC Radio Australia, interview with Patri Friedman, March 12, 2009)
- CNN Radio Podcast (March 4, 2009)
- Bureaucrash Podcast (Libertatian-orientated Interview with Patri Friedman November 14, 2008)
- BBC World Service: Culture Shock (Radio show/podcast interviewing Patri Friedman, October 13, 2008)
- The Business Shrink (Business-oriented podcast interview with Patri Friedman, September 17, 2008)
- Political Animals (Libertarian-oriented interview with Patri Friedman, June 19, 2008)
- NPR’s Bryant Park Project: Libertarian Island: No Rules, Just Rich Dudes (Podcast interview with Wired writer Alexis Madrigal, May 21, 2008)
Video:
- CNN Headline News: The Glenn Beck Show (TV Interview of Joe Lonsdale, August 25, 2008. Over two million viewers.)
- How to Start Your Own Country (2010 documentary by Jody Shapiro on micronations, with a centerpiece interview with Patri Friedman. Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.)
- The Sea is a Harsh Mistress (2010 short film by Jason Sussberg on seasteading.)
German
- Anarcho-Capitalist Patri Friedman (Punkt Magazine - English translation - PDF Download, November, 2010)
- The Golden Cage (Focus - English translation - July 24, 2010)
- State 2.0 – Conversation with Patri Friedman (Schweizer Monatshefte - English translation - PDF Download, July, 2010)
- Gesellschaft auf wackligem Grund (WirtschaftsBlatt, November 6, 2011)
- Schwimmende Städte (Handelsblatt, June 22, 2009. Leading German business newspaper. Circulation 145,000)
- I want to create a floating Hong Kong (FAZ.net - English translation - PDF Download, September 7, 2009)
- Wir fangen noch mal an: Bestehende Gesellschaften kann man nicht verändern, glaubt Patri Friedmann. Er will schwimmende Staaten im Ozean errichten, in denen Menschen so leben, wie sie wollen. (Blog interviewing Patri - English translation, 2008).
Estonian
- Milton Friedmani lapselaps rajab ookeanile uudseid vabalinnu (Postimees, English translation, May 19, 2011)
Spanish
- Instituto Maritimo Espanol Entrevista a Miguel Lamas, asesor de The Seasteading Institute: “La tendncia del mercado de cruceros es la de crear autenticas ciudades flotantes” Septembre12, 2011
- La Voz de Galicia.es La ciudad flotante es posible. Miguel Lamas, ingeniero ferrolano que asesora al Seateading Institute. Augosto 29, 2011
- Monta tu propio país (El País, English translation, April 15, 2011)
- La conquista del océano: Las Ciudades Flotantes (CNNExpansion.com, E
nglish translation , Nov 19, 2009) - La crisis los ‘echa’ al océano (El Mañana, July 6, 2009)
Portuguese
- Por um recomeço em pleno mar (O Globo, April 17, 2010. Brazilian newspaper with readership of 1,100,000)
- Viver no mar: Seasteading, o projecto viável do futuro(TVI24,English translation, March 1, 2010)
- A nova fronteira do movimento libertário: colonizar os oceanos (Gazeta do Povo, 21 June, 2009)
- Floating City Proposes New Form of Civilization on the High Seas (Epoca Negocios - English translation, June 9, 2009)
Russian
- The idea is floating on the surface (English translation, PDF Download - Sept 22, 2010)
- ЗЕМЛЯ (Moi Ostrov – November 2009 issue, pages 34-42)
Danish
- Revolution on the High Seas (Jyllands-Posten, July 19, 2009)
Romanian
- Orasul plutitor – un vis care ar putea deveni realitate in doar trei ani (HotNews.ro, August 1, 2009)
Italian
- Libertà sulla piattaforma oceanica Torna il mito dell’isola-nazione (la Repubblica, June, 2008)
- Seasteading, l’umanità nell’oceano (PuntoInformatico, May 20, 2008)
Dutch
- Drijvende stad in de oceaan (architectenweb.nl, July 9, 2009)
- Wordt de ‘zwemmedne’ stad onze woonplaats? (Idealize, July 7, 2009)
India
- The Seasteading Movement – Living off the grid at Sea (TV5, September 15, 2011)
- Milton Friedman’s grandson makes waves with ‘seasteading’ plan (Daily India, June 4, 2011)
Singapore
- Milton Friedman’s grandson makes waves with ‘seasteading’ plan (Yahoo! News Singapore, June 4, 2011)
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