In the News

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, English translation, Nov 19, 2009)
La crisis los ‘echa’ al océano (El Mañana, July 6, 2009)