The Seasteading Institute

Reply To: Housing?

Our current focus is on the first seastead to be a "Coaststead" - basically a low regulation business park / free trade zone off of the SF Bay. So I don't think saying that we are focused on housing is particularly accurate. If we're going to build ocean cities, people are going to live there. They are going to need houses. So there must be housing involved - I don't understand how you build ocean cities with no houses. But that doesn't mean it is the only business model. Or even the primary one.

Also, I think you are greatly underestimating the whole "dynamic geography" point. I have a specific theory why life on modular ocean cities will be different and better than life on land. Unless you have a reason why you think my theory is wrong, then your complaints about this being "nothing new" and the "same old" are totally off base. Modular, rearrangeable cities are something the world has never seen. (Well, there have been nomad tribes - but we've never seen it in an advanced society). Oil rigs are not modular and rearrangeable. Neither are boats. Neither are communes. If we can make such a city, it will be new, and I think better.

I welcome criticism based on a good understanding of our ideas, but yours doesn't seem to be. This is probably as much (or more) my fault for not making the website more informative, as it is yours for not reading it carefully. The conference video will be up in a few weeks - I recommend watching it to get a good idea of our current thoughts on strategy.