This is an exciting time for the seasteading movement. As announced in last week’s newsletter, Patri Friedman is switching from Executive Director to Chairman of the Board in order to pursue a seasteading-related venture, and two seasteading researchers, Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija, are preparing to launch Blueseed, a shipsteading venture.
For the past half-year or so, The Seasteading Institute has been toiling away on an engineering study that’s aimed at identifying the most promising configurations for early seastead communities. We’ve looked at three different hull configurations (ship, barge and semi-submersible) in a range of sizes to accommodate as few as 100 to as many as 5,000 seasteaders.
Here’s link to a video of a talk that Patri gave in Helsinki on May 13, 2011. Enjoy!
I am very excited to share The Seasteading Institute’s first legal research paper, Charting the Course: Toward a Seasteading Legal Strategy (one of a two paper series). The primary objective of these legal papers is to assist with the formation of a legal strategy that will be useful to seasteaders around the world. What does this mean from a practical standpoint?
This technical note recently published in the International Journal of Maritime Engineering considers the structures used today in the maritime and ocean industries to accommodate people in semipermanent accommodation at sea: the floating hotels, or flotels.
Wanted: Seasteading Stories from the Future
Can you write an inspiring article from the future illustrating how seasteading has improved humanity? If so, we want your submission. The best stories will be featured on our revised website later in the year.
Here’s what talented writers need to know when they draft their entries:
The Seasteading Institute is seeking a GIS Specialist to evaluate potential seasteading locations. We have a GIS data model which we use to evaluate potential seasteading locations. We need somebody proficient with GRASS (preferably) or ArcGIS who is able to fulfill occasional requests to implement changes to the model, run the model, and prepare the outputs.
The ideal candidate should:
BBC’s One Planet included an interview with Patri Friedman for an episode about floating cities. Patri’s contribution starts at about 11 minutes into the 18 minutes show.
Following up from the previous blog post, we introduce here the stakeholders who take part in a new vessel concept.
Anyone making a multi-million Dolar investment in building a vessel or a complete fleet of vessels is faced with a critical question: What is the business idea? This leads itself to a number of further questions:
