“‘The healthiest societies in 2030 will most likely be on the sea,’ O’Neill told an audience at a Seasteading Institute conference in 2009.”

” For some time now, the so-called Techno Utopians have been seeking new horizons, whether in deep space or the most inaccessible corners of our planet, and the latest frontier seems to be living in the oceans, both on the surface and on the seabed.”a

“Koch arrived here, in small part, via a San Francisco-based nonprofit called the Seasteading Institute, which promotes ‘living on environmentally restorative floating islands with some degree of political autonomy.'”

“Long before the Seasteading Institute, the interest in offshore micronations spurred dozens of daring and often ill-fated schemes.”

“They advocate for the construction of floating cities outside territorial waters. Such initiatives are under way in locations off the coasts of the Philippines and Florida, and even in the middle of the Indian Ocean.”

“It’s a floating city that is almost like homesteading but only on water and with governments – the key is in the name.

“It’s also set to be sustainable too, setting up for the future which – let’s face it – could involve a fair bit more building on water.”

“This is embodied in Silicon Valley’s push to build new cities. It isn’t just a business trend—it’s the latest expression of frontierism. With Starbase in the wilds of Boca Chica, Prospéra in Honduras, the envisioned city of Praxis, and the Seasteading Institute, the Valley’s builders are doing exactly what their pioneer ancestors did before them: fleeing stagnation to build something new.”

“Patri Friedman, a founder of The Seasteading Institute and the grandson of Milton Friedman, applauded Trump’s proposal, tweeting in November that ‘my dream is to turn part of the Presidio (federal land) into a neo-Tokyo of LED-accented skyscrapers and Make San Francisco Great Again.'”

“Additionally, the notion of “sea-steading” — creating permanent living structures at sea — has been proposed by groups like the Seasteading Institute, which could theoretically host diplomatic missions. However, the legal and practical challenges are vast, including issues of jurisdiction, security, and the recognition of such entities by other states, making this a largely theoretical exercise in political and architectural innovation.”

“Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is the investor and founder behind The Seasteading Institute, established in 2008. The nonprofit organisation advocates for the development of floating cities in the ocean.”

“El movimiento “seasteading” pretende construir comunidades flotantes que no se rijan por las leyes de ningún Estado y determinen su propia forma de gobernanza.”

“Around midday on Feb. 2, a large wave began its slow rumble toward the Aisland 1, an 800-ton deck barge floating in the waters between Dubai and Iran. On board the vessel were its residents of more than a year: a 58-year-old Italian businessman named Samuele Landi, three sailors, a cook and five cats.”

“Yesterday (Sunday, January 5), Rüdiger Koch set a new world record for the longest continuous stay below the water in an underwater room.”

“In recent years, Thiel has withdrawn support for the Seasteading Institute, which has failed to settle any humans on the ungovernable ocean.”

“Seasteading could be the Bitcoin of the housing market, the next big thing set to shake things up and ripe for investment.”

“The seasteaders’ fantasy lies in establishing autonomous communities in the middle of the ocean, free of government oversight or regulation. It is the “move fast and break things” approach to governance.”

“So, left without a floating city of his own creation, Thiel must now choose any other point on the planet to call home.”

“The Stead platform boasts several key features that make it a groundbreaking initiative in the realm of decentralized finance and floating infrastructure.”

“Stead allows the decentralized crowdfunding of floating assets which serve to collateralize the token, providing real world returns and mitigating risk to token holders, while using the profits of those floating assets to buy back and burn outstanding tokens, leading to a net deflationary token model, all backed by profitable real world assets.”

“Patri Friedman received funds from Peter Thiel to establish the Seasteading Institute in San Francisco. A libertarian group is dedicated to building independent floating cities on the high seas. Heartless technooligarchy is clearly their goal.”

“A group of Silicon Valley’s most powerful figures are building startup societies that they believe will set them free.”

“Strictly defined, floating communities already exist in the Netherlands, Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. But these are typically clusters of houseboats moored close to one another. What sets the new concepts apart is a matter of scale. Rather than comprising an agglomeration of smaller vessels, each of these cities is designed to be built on enormous concrete platforms suspended on the water.”

‘If “special jurisdictions” doesn’t ring a bell, even most law professors aren’t familiar with them, Bell says. He uses the term as a blanket definition for areas including special economic zones (SEZs) and foreign trade zones, places in which laws are different from the rest of the country.’

“Unlike other stadium proposals for Cleveland whose costs would be split 50/50 private/public, this plan’s $10 billion cost would be paid 25 percent by the private sector and 75 percent by taxpayers. But the island and its stadium would be authorized and funded mostly by federal dollars resulting from last year’s legislative rider to a bill appropriating funds to an updated study on the mating habits of the Tsetse Fly.” — this article was posted on April Fools’ Day.

“Futureoftheocean interview with Carly Jackson or How a Texan woman dreams of oceans as lands of freedom”

وقد أمضى معهد Seasteading، المدعوم في البداية باستثمار من Thiel، 15 عامًا في البحث عن

“The president of the Seasteading Institute, Joe Quirk, joins the show to explain how seasteads work, how they can save the environment, and why seasteading is the cure to big government.”

“Wealthy investors including Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel have planned to launch ‘floating cities’ where they will be exempt from the laws that govern nations in the world, and potentially safe from disasters engulfing land-dwellers.”

“The Seasteading Institute, initially supported by an investment from Thiel, has spent 15 years exploring the idea of ​​permanent floating communities living free of regulation in international waters.”

“Concept art by Arktide (shown) features a small floating home equipped with solar panels for power. Could this startup be the first step towards creating fully realised floating cities, aligning with the vision of The Seasteading Institute?”

“A gleaming, futuristic, tech-bro utopia in the Mediterranean. A crypto paradise on a small, rural island in Honduras. A virtual startup hub in Nigeria, where entrepreneurs can gather and start businesses—tax free.”

“Patri Friedman a confirmé à Forbes qu’en 2020, il avait rencontré à distance le ministre des Affaires économiques du Bhoutan pour discuter de Yung Drung City. Les associés de Yung Drung City ont continué à communiquer avec les fonctionnaires bhoutanais tout au long de l’année 2022, a déclaré une source proche de la startup.”

“Billionaires who grew up reading science-fiction classics published 30 to 50 years ago are affecting our life today in almost too many ways to list: Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Jeff Bezos prefers 1970s plans for giant orbital habitats.  Peter Thiel is funding research into artificial intelligence, life extension and “seasteading.” Mark Zuckerberg has blown $10 billion trying to create the Metaverse from Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash.”

“In simpler terms, yes, this is all a giant piece of fake news, taken at face value by many news websites and presumably their readers.”

“Even the name BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster remembers very much that of Blue Frontiers, a project for the construction of some artificial islands completely free from any conditioning, within which you pay in cryptocurrencies, which should have arisen in the sea of French Polynesia.”

“Même le nom Cluster de calcul BlueSea Frontier très évocateur Bordures bleuesun projet de construction d’îles artificielles totalement gratuites, payantes en crypto-monnaies, qui auraient été créées dans la mer de Polynésie française.”

“The Seasteading Institute has been focused on these ideas of building habitable structures in the high seas. Could they become sovereign enclaves? I suppose.”

“In human imagination, the sea has always remained a symbol of freedom and independence — a sentiment with deep roots in both history and psychology. It was precisely that desire for freedom coupled with technological optimism that gave rise to the seasteading movement.”

“Consider his previous support for the Seasteading Institute, another initiative aimed at developing floating cities in international waters — sanctuaries free from the constraints of traditional governance.”

“Brown had been captivated by seasteading as a teen, and, in 2019, he and Callinan, who had worked together at an investment advisory firm, visited Africa to explore the idea of building a city.”

According to the Seasteading Institute, these “floating cities” provide an “open space for experimenting with new societies.”

“[T]he institute’s current pipeline of ideas includes floating hotels, a series of government-free interconnected islands, and “the first human designed, oceangoing city-state,” which it promises to create within a decade.”

“Thiel left the Seasteading Institute’s board in 2011, but to this day, the Seasteading Institute continues to promote the idea on its website.”

“Descending from the Mountain West to sea level, we find an even more outlandish prepping scheme for the rich: the libertarian “seasteading” movement”

“Some libertarians advocate creating a free market paradise in a place beyond the reach of government regulation, such as a “seasteading” platform.”

“The question is less about whether seasteading can be ecologically beneficial — or at the very least, neutral — but whether or not its champions are willing to put the rules in place to make sure it will be.”

“Beyond their disdain for the US banking system, Srinivasan and Thiel could have bonded over mutual interests like seasteading.”

“Seabricks could give individuals the autonomy to build their structures at sea and join communities of like-minded people by simply moving their floating assets to a new group.”

“Development director Carly Jackson tells Magazine she is currently aware of 12 seasteading projects in various stages of development (see the full list here), of which the leading ones are Arktide, Atlas Island, Atlantis Sea Colony and Freedom Haven.”

“According to the standard civilization narrative, the first human settlements flourished in the vicinity of water bodies – rivers, lakes, wetlands, and seas. Nomads required water for drinking and hunting, and agricultural communities for farming as well. “

“Democracy is a thorn in the side of Promethean world-builders, from the neoliberal ideologues battling the New Deal in the postwar era to the contemporary seasteaders and advocates of charter cities, from Rand and Friedman to Thiel and Musk.”

“Among the backers are Patri Friedman, Milton Friedman’s grandson, a libertarian whose Pronomos Capital is dedicated to establishing “charter cities”, new jurisdictions on empty land with their own legal frameworks and governance systems.”

“The final flourishing of what one might think of as spatial libertarianism was the Seasteading Institute, founded in 2008 by Patri Friedman, the grandson of Milton Friedman, the Chicago School economist who did more than anyone else to popularize the notion that the “freedom to choose” was foundational.”

“Yet floating city projects like Oceanix have a controversial, libertarian-leaning cousin: seasteading. While floating city projects like Oceanix rely on the support of the host country, the decades-old concept of the seastead aims to create self-governing, independent statesdeep in international waters — where no nation’s laws apply.”

“It’s also about creating a new ultra-libertarian civilization free from taxes, anti-monopoly regulations, and meddling politicians.”

“Imagine this: your own island conveniently located at the perfect latitude with plentiful free energy, posh accommodations, and all you can eat (or drink, if you desire). Best of all, you make all the laws.”

“Though the Seasteading Institute hasn’t quite reached the above-the-clouds heights of BioShock Infinite and is instead aiming more for resorts and settlements that lie off the coast. Friedman has stated the goal is to both build new settlements that can exist alongside and above other cities and to disrupt and influence existing governments.”

Creating new cities or countries on the ocean has long been just a dream. Is seasteading getting closer. Joe Quirk of the Seasteading Institute thinks so.

“En este concepto se utilizan las plataformas marinas y se readaptan para crear ciudades flotantes”

A discussion with 147 comments in the Hacker News sharing site.

“Schritt für Schritt eröffnen sich weitere, mit leichter Hand skizzierte Denkräume, etwa die ultralibertären Pläne für die schwimmende Stadt Seasteading, eine staatenlose Mikrogesellschaft ohne staatliche Regulierung, die der PayPal-Mitbegründer Peter Thiel auf die Landkarte utopischer Inselträume gesetzt hat.”

“En este concepto se utilizan las plataformas marinas y se readaptan para crear ciudades flotantes”

“Les transformations profondes que nous connaissons – changement climatique, transformation numérique, mobilités réinventées – vont à coup sûr modifier l’apparence des grandes agglomérations.”

“Территория планеты постоянно застраивается, в некоторых странах уже не хватает места для строительства зданий, поэтому ученые придумывают все новые методы строительства.”

“However, one obstacle for all of them will be navigating international law. Musk already appears to be exploiting many soft spots in international politics, which are no competitor to a ruthless tech titan.”

“Un grupo de escritoras lidera la rebelión contra la supuesta utopía de progreso en la cultura laboral fomentada desde los gigantes tecnológicos.”

“The plan is that these will be self-sufficient homes that power themselves, produce their own hydroponic food and electricity, handle their own wastewater treatment, and even be fitted with an underwater coral nursery to support marine life. Air and water drones will courier trash, recycling, packages, food delivery and emergency medical support like defibrillators and medicine.”

“seasteading essentially starts with the observation that cruise ships exist, and asks whether we could move from a few weeks on the water at a time to semi-permanent habitation on international waters”

“Le projet Blue Frontiers , porté par le groupe libertarien Seasteading Institute, qui consiste à créer des îles artificielles complètement intégrées à la végétation dans les eaux territoriales françaises, ou la volonté d’ Elon Musk de coloniser Mars…”

“Elwartowski, a US expat, calls himself the world’s first seasteader. He lived briefly in a pod off the coast of Thailand in 2019, though when he raised the ire of that country’s navy, he fled, becoming an international fugitive. Undeterred, he’s resettled in Panama, ready to try again.”

“Whatever the reason for moving, we would be fools to assume that the days of people packing up and leaving established countries to start new ones are over. There is however, one big thing getting in the way of that: we’ve mostly run out of habitable land.”

“The U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Michael Eliot, CEO of Ventive Floathouse, to discuss innovations in seasteading and the possibilities for modular ocean structures to become widespread and affordable in the future.”

““Seasteader” housing built on platforms would rise and fall with the tides, but practical challenges are huge”

“Join me for an interesting conversation with Joe Quirk of the Seasteading Institute. We will talk about how floating cities and oceanic sanctuaries are a potential place for free people to experiment with society building and experimental governance structures.”

“When you think of who inhabits the sea, don’t think of people, you think of fishes. Turtles, dolphins, jellyfish, whales. In Dubai and Oman they have built cities into the sea on fake islands and jetties. But the people at the Seasteading Institute argue that the ocean can become home to sustainable new societies in cities that float.”

“The cruise ship has a familiar feel to those employed by Silicon Valley’s technology companies with extensive facilities”

“Is there a business case to re-envisioning our cities?”

“This Sunday, I was joined by two leading experts on “competitive governance” – a truly revolutionary idea that promises to renew freedom of choice and consent of the governed.”

“This is a libertarian variety show where we discuss the value of reducing the role of government in our daily lives.”

“Crear una sociedad en medio del océano libre de gobiernos nacionales es un nuevo concepto de civilización es lo que propone entre otras cosas el movimiento Seasteading”

“Sono i nuovi pionieri. Ma questa volta la frontiera che vogliono conquistare è liquida e le case, ipertecnologiche ed ecosostenibili, sono su palafitte.”

“Seria possível construir uma cidade em alto mar? Provavelmente, muitas pessoas digam que não, mas empresários ativistas resolveram desafiar a probabilidade e revolucionar o conceito de civilização que conhecemos.”

“Existing floating developments, like those in Victoria, often run on the same power sources as the mainland and require the same access to utilities as land developments. However, the newer, more futuristic floating city models run autonomously on green energy with net zero emissions and actually support marine environments rather than disturb them.”

“Join us for conversations with industry leaders and today’s prominent figures where they answer today’s essential 11 questions about how they obtained success and happiness, and how you can too.”

Chad Elwartowski, americký softwarový inženýr, který se stal obchodníkem s Bitcoiny, je jedním z předních představitelů konceptu seasteading – libertariánská jednotka, která staví nezávislá plovoucí města na volném moři.

“These aren’t your reclaimed plastic, hippy islands, though. “They’re high tech superstructures aimed at sustainable living not dissimilar to the ones that you’ll find in Dubai, or that floating hotel in Sweden, only bigger and aimed at housing entire communities.”

What is seasteading?

“Thanks to the coronavirus, “seasteading” is enjoying a renaissance among the tech elite. But this time, they’re seeking permission.”

“Seasteading represents the ultimate Silicon Valley approach to governance, conceiving society as a technology that can be hacked and innovated upon as simply as an operating system.”

“A expressão é um neologismo com as palavras em inglês “sea” (“oceano”) e “homesteading” (“estilo de vida autossuficiente”), um conceito que indica a criação de habitações permanentes no mar, chamadas de “seasteads”, fora dos territórios reivindicados pelos governos de qualquer nação estabelecida.”

The founder of a Silicon Valley think tank promoting the construction of seasteads — or floating cities that operate independently of existing governments — told The Telegraph that he’s seeing an increase in interest.

The seasteading community has for years pushed the futuristic idea that living in independent, human-made communities on the ocean is the way to move society forward.

And what better time than a pandemic.

“The safest place to be in a pandemic is a seastead,” said Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute, an organization based in San Francisco that promotes the creation of new living spaces on the high seas or on far-flung islands.

“For quite some time now, a number of libertarians, bitcoin evangelists, and blockchain entrepreneurs have been promoting the idea of charter cities and seasteading concepts. One such project, Pronomos Capital, has raised $9 million from heavyweight investors like venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Pronomos was incorporated in August by Patri Friedman, as the project is attempting to start sovereign charter cities in developing countries.”

“Today, as the vision of a world without rules seems more enticing than ever, that movement is receiving a boost, according to proponents in Silicon Valley, where closed offices have prompted a remote working revolution. And you cannot get more remote than the sea.”

To the sea! Health – and financial – gains to be found in state of the art seasteads, that have seen a surge in interest amidst the pandemic, as workers go remote

The politically autonomous dwellings based in international waters have long held an appeal for those in thrall to disrupting the status quo

“But launching full-fledged atolls on the rollicking Pacific would have demanded a level of engineering savvy and, in Ephemerisle parlance, saltiness that participants just didnt have. So Friedman and a large group of friends settled on an out-of-the-way estuary a short drive from San Francisco where currents are chill, access is easy and boat traffic is minimal.”

“These floating cities, also called startup countries or seasteads, (would) offer open spaces for experimenting with new societies and unregulated innovation and new models of governance.”

Despite including only a very small blurb about seasteading in this article, Carruthers manages to squeeze in multiple errors. Thiel was not involved with the Floating Island Project in French Polynesia, and The Seasteading Institute wasn’t planning to build a floating “city” there.

“More developers see waterborne structures as a way to alleviate housing shortages and to support temporary events like the 2022 soccerWorld Cup”

“From the issue of Refugee to the Seasteading case, it reminds me of a movie. Is a documentary movie That has been questioned as “homeless” or homeless , they are “forced” or “voluntarily””

“Can seasteading create a free, stable society and thus, spur innovation? Tune in to learn more.”

“Patri Friedman is sick of the jokes about floating tax havens.”

“Bob discusses Titus’ proposal and how it differs from other types of abstract libertarian theorizing.”

“If a tiny floating cottage brought down the wrath of the Thai navy, is there any hope for stateless life at sea?”

“Floating cities lose a little clarity in their nomenclature. When we talk about floating cities we’re generally not really talking about entire cities floating around on the open ocean, but a series of interconnected platforms that are moored to the seabed a short distance out from shore.”

“Universal basic income seems like an idea whose time has come — except to some of the very people pushing the idea in the first place.”

“When the ice caps melt, covering the earth with water, and Kevin Costner sails the seas alone, wearing a set of fish gills and a hardened scowl, the rest of us will be happily content, living comfortably on fancy floating city-states. No fighting cigarette-crazed pirates on greasy Jet Skis, just lazing like frogs on teched-out lily pads.”

“Unfortunately, most of the world’s land is controlled by rapacious governments unwilling to let others experiment. But fortunately, that still leaves oceans.”

“How can we live free? Governments impose rules and control all land on earth.”

Imagine owning real estate without the dirt …

Just as freedom seeking pilgrims fled Europe for the brave new world of the Americas, there’s a growing movement among ruggedly independent entrepreneurs to set up homesteads on the high seas.

It may sound counterintuitive, but floating architecture provides two big advantages. First, it creates “land” that moves with the waves and thus is resilient in the face of flooding. Second, it allows cities to expand their pressurized coastal urban spaces.

“Growing fears about natural disasters, nuclear war, and a slew of other threats are causing people to buy fancy underground apartments.”

“It’s been about 13 centuries since Homer envisioned a mythical floating city surrounded by “unbreakable bronze.” The idea has generally remained the province of myth since then — until last month.”

“The only radical action taken by Chad Elwartowski and Supranee Thepdet was their decision to live together in such a small space at the edge of the ocean.”

“By many measures the Caribbean region offers more freedom to aspiring ‘citizens of the world’ than anywhere else on the planet.”

“The libertarian movement to build independent nations on floating platforms has hit a few snags.”

“A Tecumseh native and his girlfriend remain safe but still on the run from authorities in Thailand after the couple’s seasteading venture ran afoul of the country’s government.”

“American software engineer Chad Elwartowski thought he had found the perfect refuge from the long arm of meddlesome, overbearing governments. It was a home floating in the turquoise waters far off the coasts of Thailand and Indonesia.”

“An illegal ‘seasteading’ home belonging to a Bitcoin-rich couple was towed by the Thai navy. Meanwhile, the publicity of the event has caused Bitcoin volumes to soar in Thailand.”

“Chad Elwartowski, an American Bitcoin trader, may be facing the death penalty in Thailand after his “seasteadding” 15 miles off the coast of Thailand got him in trouble with authorities.”

“There’s a movement by a group of aqua pioneers that wants to build eco-friendly, self-governing floating cities called seasteading.”

“The detached floating seastead cabin was lifted from the sea and placed on dry land for police inspection as authorities gather evidence to take legal action against the US-Thai couple.”

“Thailand’s navy on Monday began towing to shore the floating cabin of a fugitive U.S. citizen and his Thai girlfriend, both prominent members of the “seasteading” movement who face possible death sentences for setting up their offshore home.”

“A pirate’s life ain’t all that it’s cracked up to be: A bitcoin couple is sought by Thai authorities after trying to make a lawless, tax-free home on the sea outside Phuket island.”

“An American bitcoin trader and his girlfriend could face the death penalty after they were accused of threatening Thailand’s sovereignty by building and living in a “sea home” off the coast of Phuket.”

A dream to live at sea has left an American Bitcoin investor and his Thai partner in hot water with officials in Thailand, and the two may face life in prison or death over violating the country’s sovereignty.

“Thai authorities have raided a floating home in the Andaman Sea belonging to an American man and his Thai partner who sought to be pioneers in the “seasteading” movement, which promotes living in international waters to be free of any nation’s laws.”

Thai authorities have raided a floating home in the Andaman Sea belonging to an American man and his Thai partner who sought to be pioneers in the “seasteading” movement, which promotes living in international waters to be free of any nation’s laws.

“Floating living platform deemed ‘threat to sovereignty'”

“An American man and his Thai partner say they are in hiding from Thai authorities and are fearful for their lives after the Royal Thai Navy filed a police complaint against them over a “seastead” living platform built in the waters more than 40 kilometres south of Phuket.”

“The ‘first seasteaders’ wanted a new life free from national laws, now they say they’re on the run after reports of criminal charges related to their waterborne structure.”

“The Thai government thinks floating around just outside its territorial waters could justify a death sentence for seasteaders.”

“The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has embraced the concept of floating cities as a solution for housing and climate change. At its High-Level Round Table on Sustainable Floating Cities on April 3, scientists and politicians discussed a city designed to ride out floods and storms atop the waves.”

“Navy complaint over ‘living platform'”

If climate change ends up coming for your home, you could move inland. Or you could decamp to tessellated platforms floating on the ocean.

“Chad Elwartowski sees the spar beneath his seastead as a floating middle finger to those who “want to control other people’s lives through force.””

Interest in cryptocurrency is often interlinked with a passion for personal freedom and a desire to shape the future for the better. A recent example of this is a team of Bitcoin early adopters who are building a seasteading home off the coast of Thailand.

“Two libertarians now have a private home off the coast of Thailand-proof of concept for a world of more competitive governance and greater ocean environmental health.”

“A project of floating cities, by the Seasteading Institute, is offering an alternative version of future housing. It’s much less dramatic than the Kevin Costner film and depends on the expertise of a global and diverse team of marine biologists, nautical engineers, farmers, medical researchers, investors, environmentalists and artists.”

“Count on Reason to keep you way ahead of the pop-cultural curve: I first profiled the Seasteading movement back in 2009, and then reported from the first and second iterations of a still-ongoing annual water-based festival spun off from the movement, Ephemerisle.”

“The addition of the Future Era is to show players how their world and civilizations can be affected by fossil fuels, overpopulation and the invention of new technologies such as carbon recapture and seasteading as the mainland becomes more inhospitable.”

“With infrastructure the primary cost of floating charter cities, the city-state is home to major investors with deep experience in property, maritime and infrastructure ventures.”

“An ocean-platform community voluntarily funded and organized, if successful, is a monumental event in human anthropology.”

“[T]hey are fully aware of the damage that modern industrial society is inflicting on wildlife in the oceans, forcefully making points about issues such as pollution and depletion of fish stocks that environmentalists frequently make. But rather than use these issues to make an ecological case against human progress, they make one for it.”

“Democracy is regarded as the best form of government there is. But it isn’t working too well and start-up societies could be the answer”

“The very act of living on the ocean naturally engenders a lifestyle that respects an environment that one cannot run from. When you’re living on the ocean you are forced to live within its limitations and constantly consider and factor your environmental footprint.”

If nine billion of us are to survive in 2050, we are charged with six moral imperatives as ancient as they are urgent:

feed the hungry, enrich the poor, cure the sick, restore the environment, power civilization sustainably, and live in peace.

“There could be an innovative solution to the problem of congestion and overcrowding in Aussie cities – but it might be a long way off. A California-based non-profit, The Seasteading Institute, is floating the idea of “Seasteads” – ocean-borne cities that will give people opportunities to peacefully test new ideas about living together.”

Seasteading as a concept is still in its early stages, and working with existing countries are part of what Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute, a nonprofit think tank whose research inspired the Blue Frontiers project, calls “strategic incrementalism towards autonomy.”

“Innovation in health care is woefully lacking and government red tape is largely to blame, but seasteading just might be a way to circumvent bureaucracy without sacrificing quality.”

“Seasteading is not a plan for society. Seasteading is a technology for anybody to try their own society. The Seasteading Institute takes no position on what kind of societies should be formed. We foster the research and technology for individuals to try their own societies.”

“Mr Quirk’s plans are truly ambitious when it comes to making these islands self-sufficient and sustainable. The islands will be built on floating panels that will help regenerate coral reefs and reverse coral bleaching.”

“The worlds first autonomous floating island nation-state is set to be completed by 2022 and has begun selling the cryptocurrency intended to drive the project today.”

“Investors can now take part in a presale of Vayron, the cryptocurrency the Seasteading Institute, the organisation behind the plan, will use.”

“Investors can now take part in a presale of Vayron, the cryptocurrency the Seasteading Institute, the organisation behind the plan, will use.”

“Joe Quirk ‘hopes that the city will serve as ‘an incubation hub to develop wave energy generation technologies, floating solar, materials science, algae-based food and fuel, sea water air conditioning (SWAC), desalination, and marine education.'”

“The company behind the floating city just started selling its virtual currency that will let you buy homes and businesses on its “eco-friendly” hideaway”

“French Polynesia could become the location of the world’s first floating city as early as 2022 – says the co-founder of a non-profit think tank.”

Carl Smith puts the idea of ‘seasteading’ under the microscope, and digs through the history of Australia’s pioneering floating hotel project.

“The proposed location is a calm, circular Tahitian atoll.

“The water is shallow and protected from damaging waves. Bobbing up and down in the lagoon are futuristic floating dwellings with clean lines and grass-covered roofs.”

“The project’s backers said they were still in talks with the government which earlier said a deal was void.”

“Forget Mars… in the future, humanity will live at sea argues Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute.”

“People in the innovative governance space have long been thinking about creating city states, experimenting with and improving models for territorial governance. The result is not just a lack of progress in the past six years, but backsliding.”

“Last year, the government of French Polynesia adopted a Memorandum of Understanding that said it would look into the prospects of allowing a seastead to be built near one of its islands. “Seasteads” are artificially created island polities that can experiment with different rules and add a level of competition to government.”

“Cutting-edge libertarian-world projects such as Seasteading and Liberland are rooted in the idea of widening competition in sovereignty.”

“A seastead is an idea; a floating community at sea. It is a homestead, just like in the John Wayne movies, but on the water, not the prairie; outside the reach of any government.”

“Floating cities of the future would feature vast underwater algae farms that would provide a healthy food source for residents.”

“There was a time when people unhappy with their government, and no longer able to tolerate the situation, would simply go somewhere else, and set up their own new communities. That is largely the story of the western frontier, but it is no longer an option — or is it?”

遠い海の果てには理想郷がある。

こんなおとぎ話をよく耳にしますが、それが現実となる日も近いかもしれません。

“The creators of a man-made floating island off Tahiti say they want a quarter of its population to be made up of Polynesian people.”

“The movement is called ‘sea steading’, a man-made floating community that sets its own laws and is self-sustaining, and the first one could be built on our Pacific doorstep in French Polynesia.”

“Not only could floating cities offer a sustainable place to live, but they could also potentially help coral reefs recover and provide a habitat for marine life, according to Joe Quirk, Blue Frontiers co-founder and Seasteading Institute seavangelist.”

“Much of the Earth is covered by water with 71 per cent of it being the ocean. We harvest the ocean for seafood and seaweed but so far there hasn’t been any real attempt to create homes on the ocean. The reason is obvious.:

“En novembre, la société Blue Frontiers qui porte le projet d’îles flottantes à Tahiti a présenté un rapport détaillé au Pays ; comme prévu dans le protocole d’accord signé en janvier 2017, une étude environnementale et une étude économique y étaient annexées.”

“Utopie ou réalité ? En tous les cas, des détails ont été apportés sur le projet des îles flottantes. Marc Collins, porte-parole de Seasteading Institut et correspondant local de la société, revient sur les avancées du projet.”

Joe Quirk Discusses the possibility of floating cities as early as 2020, and his book Seasteading.

These are the incredible first pictures of a floating city that will be built off the island of island of Tahiti by 2020 by a group backed by billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel

“Now, a series of computer generated graphics reveal how it might look once complete, with a design that blends futuristic technology with Polynesian traditions.”

“What if we told you that in a couple of decades from now there would be mobile cities operating out in the middle of the ocean far from any nation states jurisdiction?”

“Místo u břehů Francouzské Polynésie už navštívili architekti i inženýři. Teď mají autoři projektu Plovoucí ostrov tři roky na to, aby uvedli v život aspoň zárodek snů o městech na hladině moří.”

“Floating cities may sound like science fiction, but if Blue Frontiers has its way, about 250 people will be living on about 15 artificial islands in the lagoon by 2020.”

“The first ever-floating city is set to appear in 2020—and by 2050, thousands could exist around the world.”

“Le projet d’île flottante porté par la fondation californienne Seasteading Institute commence à se dessiner plus précisément. La presse internationale a dévoilé de nouveaux plans d’architecte, des détails technologiques et scientifiques”

“Cities at sea, afloat on the waves, have long been a cherished dream for forward-thinking architects and science fiction writers. Now the world’s first fully floating community is set to take shape in the turquoise waters of a Tahitian lagoon.”

“An ambitious start-up is targeting 2020 for the launch of a floating city off French Polynesia, where it hopes to use a “start-up” ethos to eventually create a climate-friendly, small-government alternative to land-based nations.”

“A collection of technology billionaires, architects and dreamers hope to build neighbourhoods and even city states on the ocean, but they could face some serious barriers.”

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“Cities at sea, afloat on the waves, have long been a cherished dream for forward-thinking architects and science fiction writers.”

“Though the concept of ocean communities has been around since the ’80s, San Francisco–based think tank The Seasteading Institute, is leading the charge to bring it to life.”

“Rising above threats and challenges.”

“Want to change the world? Well how about going to live on a city that sails about in the tropical waters of French Polynesia?”

Joe Quirk is an American author whose idea of building floating nations is explored in his latest book “Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians.”

“The idea seems so absurd that at the first thought it may seem like a film set for a sci-fi movie. But hold on to your horses because this isn’t as far-fetched as it seems. We bring you the future!”

“This city, should it have been built, would have been the first of its kind. Half a century ago, Fuller planned the first models of a city district that was designed not to stand on the ground, but to float on the ocean.”

“Building a libertarian, techno-utopian paradise in a city that floats on the ocean sounds like the stuff of science fiction or a joke on HBO’s “Silicon Valley.“ And it is both of those things, but it’s also closer to reality than ever before.”

“On-going project making concept of ‘seasteading’ a reality, building a semi-autonomous community at sea and providing an environment relatively free of government control”

“It is an idea at once audacious and simplistic, a seeming impossibility that is now technologically within reach: cities floating in international waters — independent, self-sustaining nation-states at sea.”

“O objetivo do The Seasteading Institute é concentrar cientistas em ilhas, inclusive fundando uma nova forma de fazer política, para estimular a inovação”

“Créer un archipel artificiel écologique en Polynésie Française pour tester de nouveaux modèles de gouvernance et promouvoir l’innovation dans les technologies numériques et marines, c’est le projet du Seasteading Institute.”

“Joe Quirk is a guy who likes to joke around, so I assumed the title was a lighthearted exaggeration. A hyperbolic hook.

“By the time I finished the book I was utterly convinced that seasteading will save the world.”

“The seasteading movement is getting close to building its first prototype, an artificial archipelago where people will live, play and do research.”

“Seasteading began as a thought experiment: imagine a sovereign Libertarian utopia in international waters, far from the reach of any government. Over the last decade, this dream has inched closer and closer to reality.”

“If a nation cannot defend its border, it ceases to exist in any meaningful way.”

“In mere decades I think our children will be living on floating, sustainable societies, based on the voluntary choices of the people who live there,” Quirk tells Inverse. “They’ll look back on our primitive governments founded in previous nation states and wonder why we had to argue between two choices, when they have such a proliferation of choices.”

“Keinen Markt dominiert der Staat so sehr wie den Markt für gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben. Ökonomen und findige Unternehmer wollen das ändern – mit freien Privatstädten ohne Politik. Kommen jetzt elitäre Ghettos?”

“Maybe the time has come to try something radically different, instead of doubling down on the same old strategies. That’s the view of Joe Quirk of the Seasteading Institute, who discusses the potential for humanity in, yes, floating nations.”

California’s Seasteading Institute has an audacious claim: establishing floating societies will “restore the environment, enrich the poor, cure the sick, and liberate humanity from politicians.” “Seavangelist” Joe Quirk, author of the new book Seasteading, explains this bold vision to host Steve Curwood.

“Will Kevin Costner be involved? What about storms?”

“Tech titans are also busy rethinking the role of the nation state.”

“While some people are planning for life on Mars, there’s a new movement of so-called “seasteaders” planning to colonize a frontier a lot closer to home.”

“New promise for floating free communities in a Polynesian lagoon—but is the movement leaving libertarianism behind?”

“If you’d like to live in a country that caters to your values and lifestyle, why not build your own?”

“Independence—political and financial—is a central goal of seasteading. The movement doesn’t just strive to utilize the empty expanse of the ocean for human habitat—it seeks to create a space for new kinds of societies to spring up.”

“A French Polynesian environmentalist helping proponents of a floating island in the territory says it’s likely to mean little harm to the environment.”

L’humanité est à pied sec sur moins de 30% de la planète. Et ce n’est pas près de s’améliorer à cause de l’érosion côtière due au changement climatique. Poussés à assurer notre survie, c’est à dire à nous nourrir, à gérer nos ressources et à nous abriter, nous voici contraints d’observer et d’apprendre les usages savants des civilisations nautiles premières, preuves de leur capacité d’innovation.

“The floating-cities advocate says moving to the oceans will save us from environmental catastrophe.”

“An international maritime safety expert, engineers, social scientists and an architect who’s built underwater habitats are among those who gathered on Tahiti last week to discuss plans for a floating island in French Polynesia.”

“Bâtir des cités flottantes en Polynésie française, c’est le pari de l’association The Seasteading Institute, qui a tenté de convaincre les Polynésiens cette semaine, pendant quatre jours de séminaire à Tahiti, consacrés à ces îles artificielles.”

“Teva Rohfritsch a pris soin de rappeler que ce projet n’implique aucune dépense publique, qualifiant de “polémique stérile” certains des commentaires que suscite le projet.”

Le vice-président de la Polynésie, les promoteurs du projet d’île flottante en Polynésie ainsi qu’une pléthore d’invités internationaux ont enchainé les présentations.

“The notion of pioneers creating nations on the sea, or seasteading, first gained attention in 2008 when Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel backed the project.”

“Joe Quirk has been described as a “seavangelist”; in his work with The Seasteading Institute, he argues that new floating nation states, facilitated by the institute’s innovative technology, will revolutionize the world.”

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New city-states in international waters could eventually house as many as a billion people. Shlomo Angel reviews “Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians” by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman.

“Die Leser von eigentümlich frei sind eine heterogene Gruppe, doch was sie sicherlich eint, ist die – vorsichtig ausgedrückt – Skepsis gegenüber Ausmaß und Qualität staatlicher Koordination und Regelaufstellung. Und dies sicherlich nicht zu Unrecht.”

Deux représentants du Seasteading Institute, actuellement au fenua pour “s’assurer de la faisabilité technique du projet” d’îles flottantes, ont rencontré, le week-end dernier, à Moorea, des chercheurs locaux.

“Looking past the waves, out over the ocean horizon, it is hard not to dream and think about adventure and escape. Seasteading from Joe Quirk with Patri Friedman has such an image on the cover, and the book is a long treatise on how we can make a living and create new seavilizations out there on the big blue.”

“The Pacific nation of French Polynesia, looking for a potential lifeline as global warming takes hold, in January became the first country to sign an agreement to deploy the floating islands off its coast.”

“Do you love the ocean? Are you an innovator? Are you sick and tired of old models of government that are stuck in the last century?

“If you answered yes to the above, consider seasteading; it’s like Waterworld but without the mutants.”

Imagine a cruise ship that never docks which hosts a tiny nation – independently governed and welcoming to innovators. Margot O’Neill explores the brave new world of seasteads.

As climate change forces us to reimagine future cities, building floating structures seems to be a realistic proposal

The government of French Polynesia signed an historic agreement that allows the development of the first floating city in a lagoon off its most populated island of Tahiti.

“Der Meeresspiegel und die Grundstückspreise steigen. Warum nicht auf die Ozeane ausweichen? In schwimmenden Städten könnten Tausende Menschen leben – vielleicht sogar als eigenständige Nation.”

“The French Polynesian government has signed an agreement with the nonprofit organization The Seasteading Institute to cooperate on creating legal frameworkfor the development of a floating island.”

“You might call it a Noah’s Ark for an era of melting polar ice sheets.”

“Nous publions en exclusivité le “memorandum of understanding” signé par le Pays et le Seasteading Institute, le fameux projet d’îles flottantes en Polynésie.”

“Once the realm of sci-fi and fantasy, futuristic living suddenly seems to be approaching rather fast. In a time when hoverboards and self-lacing sneakers exist, and cars might be flying by the end of the year, another futuristic entity looks set to become a reality.”

“French Polynesia has signed an agreement that supporters hope could pave the way for autonomous floating cities around the world.”

“The government of French Polynesia has signed a deal with Seasteading Institute to begin construction work in just two years.”

“Sea level rise is an increasing threat to low-lying island nations around the world. Many islands in French Polynesia could lose their coastlines or even disappear due to global warming.”

“The world’s first floating city could be constructed off the waters of French Polynesia after the Government signed an agreement with a United States company in San Francisco at the weekend.”

“If the bureaucratic hurdles can be jumped, a real seastead could be floating in French Polynesian water in 2018.”

“The idea is to build a floating city at least 200 miles off of a country’s coastline.”

“Why can’t we solve California’s devastating housing shortage?

“Perhaps it’s because the proposed solutions — sprawling construction, denser construction, granny flats, affordable housing mandates, and regulation exemptions — are all built on the same flawed premise: that housing must exist solely on land.”

“Jim O’Neill condemned by Gizmodo as “insane” for believing in regulatory techniques that can speed life-saving medicines to market

“Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk recently announced grand – and expensive – plans for humans to populate Mars in the near future. But what if there were a more practical way to inhabit another frontier, using the atmosphere we already have, and in the process to create a platform for developing the tools and innovations to help us adapt to climate change?”

La Polynésie française accueillera-t-elle la première cité flottante au monde dans le lagon de Raiatea, de Tupai ou dans la baie de Phaëton, à Tahiti ?

“The Seasteading Institute has announced that it met with Édouard Fritch, the President of French Polynesia, in order to discuss the development of a floating city in the region.”

“Le président Edouard Fritch, entouré d’une grande partie de son gouvernement, ainsi que des maires de Bora Bora et Makemo, a reçu, vendredi, l’équipe de l’Institut Seasteading, menée par Randolph Hencken, directeur exécutif.”

“e 6 I interview Joe Quirk. Joe is a spokesperson for the Seasteading Institute. In the interview we discuss Private Governance, Engineering Challenges, and how Private Maritime Operations currently outperform the government from security to salvage to medicine.”

“This isn’t about going and living off of the ocean without connecting to the greater world’s societies”

“The Floating City Project – Architectural Design Contest held in the Spring of 2015 was organized in partnership with DeltaSync (Netherlands) and judged by an international panel of experts.”

“If waking up to a sea breeze and panoramic ocean views is your idea of heaven, you might consider moving to a floating city.”

“It was announced today that the Seasteading Institute is bringing Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to San Francisco to speak about their mutual interests in competitive governance.”

“Wired argues that “Silicon Valley is Letting Go of Its Techie Island Fantasies” on insufficient evidence.”

Joe Quirk interviewed by Tom Woods on his podcast.

“Using the cruise industry as a model, Quirk predicts seasteading will become a reality for “aqua-preneurs” by the year 2020.”

Een Amerikaanse denktank wil honderden nieuwe stadstaatjes creëren. Locatie: de wereldzeeën. Welkom bij seasteading, wonen in een stad die op de oceaan drijft. Ook in Nederland wordt eraan gewerkt.

“The Seasteading Institute, the most high-profile organisation involved in the development of floating cities, has announced that it has begun testing the technology that forms the basis for its planned floating metropolis.”

“In a quiet, shady street in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, Koen Olthuis and the design team at Waterstudio are changing the world.”

“The Director of Communications at the Seasteading Institute Joe Quirk provides insights into the possibilities of seasteading”

A podcast interview including an interview with Joe Quirk.

“Bloomberg published a half gee-whiz, half oh-shit-this-might-happen piece that quoted critics of the idea while conceding the technical barriers are falling away. And seasteading is now being assailed with arguments that would just as handily condemn any sort of emigration by dissidents seeking a better life elsewhere.”

“The year is 2024, and Friedman lives on a so-called seastead, a waterbound city of some 1,000 people who produce their own food, their own energy and — most important — their own laws.”

“A market for residential seasteads exists, so says the Seasteading Institute in their newly published “Floating City Project” report (PDF). The 134-page publication — prepared between March 2013 and March 2014 and released on April 25 — is an initiative that seeks to establish the world’s first seastead within territorial waters of a host nation.”

“Joe, I like you, because we’re simpatico on this whole part about competition…I don’t know why we think people, the government, or anyone is going to do the right thing without the incentive and the competition…This whole seasteading thing, man, that just takes it to a whole new strata. That is just absolutely amazing. I love that—I love that—I just love that idea.”

“Aiming to develop habitations at sea that are safe and practical while enabling “experimentation with alternative social systems,” the Seasteading Institute has hired the Dutch engineering firm DeltaSync.”

“Thanks to rising sea levels and disappearing soil, agriculture’s future might be all wet.”

“Nearly 400 years ago, the English scientist, author and philosopher Francis Bacon wrote of a mysterious island nation in the Pacific Ocean, whose citizens used technology to solve hunger, cure sickness and control the weather.”

“Could Silicon Valley become more of an island? An island is both an outpost with its own rules that’s also a bit cut off from the wider society — a combination of characteristics which emerged during a series of conversations on whether an island of innovation would end up a richer or poorer place if left to its own devices. One startup would like to put a collection of floating dorms and offices just past the limit of current US immigration law, about 12 miles out to sea.”

“Libertarians may need to engage in politics simply to buy as much time as possible to secure permission for exit paths that are not allowed today.”

“DeltaSync’s Seasteading Implementation Plan works from the premise that early efforts will be anchored in sheltered harbors—specifically, the Gulf of Fonseca, bordering El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua—until more experience is acquired.”

“Outside the bounds of the the 193 countries in the United Nations, a seastead would be free to operate its own government any way its population sees fit.”

“Your hip, politically savvy friends probably say something like this with every election: ‘If [so-and-so] wins, I’m leaving the country.’ “That might soon become so possible that they’ll have to follow through with it.”

“If you’re tired of the slow pace of political progress, regretful you weren’t alive to help settle America, or want to explore the high seas without leaving your Xbox behind, read on. Seasteading may be for you!”

“Our biggest challenge is getting over this first hurdle, where we get enough people together, enough money together; this can’t be done on the cheap,” says Randolph Hencken of The Seasteading Institute.

“In the wake of a depressed economy and septic political system many Americans are looking for alternatives – both for some solace in the stormy present, as well as for a vision of the future.”

“Professor Tom W. Bell talks about “startup cities” and experiments in governance.”

“Bitcoin represents more than a digital currency. For many adopters, it is a means of breaking free of government and financial institutions’ control over money.”

“The story includes reasonable and not obviously biased reports from a Seasteading Institute conference, focused on the legal and technical (and agricultural) ends of the idea, not the living in groovy liberty part.”

“Ephemerisle got its libertarian streak from its founders: the event was originally conceived of by the Seasteading Institute, a San Francisco nonprofit that supports the creation of thousands of floating city-states in international waters.”

“Government is a science. Political science is, according to Aristotle, the study of the state. But if governance is a science why don’t we see more experimenting with the state? Why aren’t we trying new things in government? “

“He likened this potential free-experimentation zone to Burning Man and said that we need “some safe places where we can try things and not have to deploy to the entire world.””

“Life on the sea has been one of mankind’s enduring visions, but the technology hasn’t been up to the task… until now. Are we on the cusp of housing communities permanently on the ocean?”

“I chatted about some such ideas in the works now (including Seasteading, Honduran free citiees, Glenn Beck’s Texas redoubt, and a hoped-for libertarian buyout of Detroit’s Belle Island) on Huffington Post Live on Friday, with host Jim Poulos and fellow guests Patri Friedman (founder of the Seasteading Institute) and Christina Heller, maker of the documentary Libertopia, which focused on the Free State Project.”

“Blueseed, a company spun off by former associates of the Seasteading Institute, is a step closer to a functional tech-company campus floating in international waters off of the coast of Silicon Valley as they announced last week some venture capital funding (in yet unspecified amounts).”

A group of rich techies in Northern California is planning on starting its own nation on artificial islands in the ocean. They call themselves “seasteaders” and are sort of a mix between geeks and hippies.

“Future Cities Development, a company dedicated to helping create “free cities” within the nation of Honduras to demonstrate the business and social advantages of competitive governance, has folded.”

“Those who push the idea are often dismissed as libertarian fantasists. The seasteading movement has its fair share of those, but it is also home to pioneers longing to conquer a new frontier.”

“New water-based locations for trading servers could enable firms to fully optimise their trading strategies.”

“The vision: floating, autonomous city-states to bring about a social “Cambrian explosion”—without taxes or pesky regulators.”

“Autonomous communities, floating in international waters, would allow political pioneers to test novel forms of government.”

“While not short of enthusiasim or imaginination, the non-profit Seasteading Institute, founded in 2008, has set about to make the dream of colonization of the seas, or seasteading, a reality through practical steps and grounded analysis.”

“But it may be possible to leapfrog government entirely. Imagine “seasteading”—living on a floating city outside of any country’s jurisdiction.”

“Mother Jones’s Josh Harkinson (who tends to cover the libertarian-oid beat for them) attends the latest conference of the Seasteading Institute, and finds–surprise!–people with unusual views, and of course he leads with the one most likely to make his audience mistrust the subject.”

“Instead of relocating to Fiji, Kiribati should consider Seasteading, autonomous communities that would based in international waters.”

“St. Kitts and Nevis is one of only two nations, along with the island of Dominica, that formally sell citizenship.”

“Marty believes that his seasteading venture Blueseed “is the solution to a problem” created by the archaic U.S. visa system”

“In Silicon Valley crazy doesn’t get you committed. It gets you noticed. It gets you funded. It gets you rich. Crazy is even a corporate rallying cry. As the late Steve Jobs said: here’s to the crazy ones.”

“Seasteading guru Patri Friedman has stepped down from the Seasteading Institute (which still promotes the creation of floating new nations to experiment with different governance systems) and is now running Future Cities Development, Inc., dedicated to creating charter cities with their own governance systems within the borders of Honduras.”

“Seasteading: Libertarians dream of creating self-ruling floating cities. But can the many obstacles, not least the engineering ones, be overcome?”

“The Seasteading Institute remains steadfast about being apolitical and desires to see the creation of thousands of innovative governments on seasteads competing for citizens.”

“Whether you’re concerned that your home will be soon be beachfront property, or you’ve simply always wanted to live life at sea, you don’t want to miss these groundbreaking (water-breaking?) designs.”

“Here’s a novel idea: Escape the suffocating chains of intrusive government by starting your own country!”

“THIEL: There’s a technological question about how far away we are from these kinds of things. It’s probably not around the corner. But these technological projects are worth pursuing.”

Patri Friedman is aware that his idea sounds crazy. The former Google engineer and grandson of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wants to build “start-up countries”: autonomous dwellings in the middle of the ocean, starting with a brand new independent city-state off the California coast.

“Ideas evolve quickly along the Friedman family tree. The late Milton Friedman, an economist at the University of Chicago, was one of the 20th century’s most respected and influential advocates for classical liberalism.”

Patri Friedman wants to make it easy for anyone to build an independent country: “If we make one seastead, there’s room for thousands.”

“The idea is to get out into international waters and set up a floating outpost (or 12, or 1,200) from which people can come and go, experimenting with different types of legal, social, and contractual arrangements.”

“Having an address in international waters, or simply the capability to move readily from one harbor to another, inevitably will give a powerful new meaning to “offshore” markets and tax havens.”

“I believe that oceanic settlers will be the scientific and technological leaders of the world a few years hence.”