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Home Is the Ocean
Reason
Will Barkley
"I believe that oceanic settlers will be the scientific and technological leaders of the world a few years hence."READ MORE
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1972 Home Is the OceanReasonWill Barkley"I believe that oceanic settlers will be the scientific and technological leaders of the world a few years hence."READ MORE |
1997 New Waterworld OrderReasonKenneth Silber"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."READ MORE |
2008 Homesteading on the High SeasReasonKatherine Mangu-Ward"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."READ MORE |
2009 Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the CheapWiredChris BakerPatri Friedman wants to make it easy for anyone to build an independent country: "If we make one seastead, there's room for thousands."READ MORE |
2009 20,000 Nations Above the SeaReasonBrian Doherty"Friedman wondered: What if you could just move—not just you, but everything you own, including your home, and, if your neighbors agreed with you, your whole community? What if you could move all of it where no government would bother you at all, and you could make a new, better society?"READ MORE |
2009 20,000 Nations Above the SeaReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2010 Names You Need To Know In 2011: Patri FriedmanForbesClare O'ConnorPatri 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.READ MORE |
2011 Back to the Future with Peter ThielNational ReviewMatthew Shaffer"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."READ MORE |
2011 Is Seasteading the Future?ReasonJohn Stossel"Here's a novel idea: Escape the suffocating chains of intrusive government by starting your own country!"READ MORE |
2011 10 innovative ideas that let us live on waterMNNLaura Moss"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."READ MORE |
2011 Seasteading Institute: Billionaire backer doesn’t ‘dictate’ our island-state plansYahoo! NewsLiz Goodwin"The Seasteading Institute remains steadfast about being apolitical and desires to see the creation of thousands of innovative governments on seasteads competing for citizens."READ MORE |
2011 Cities on the oceanEconomistEconomist"Seasteading: Libertarians dream of creating self-ruling floating cities. But can the many obstacles, not least the engineering ones, be overcome?"READ MORE |
2011 Seasteaders Take to the Land in HondurasReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2011 Peter Thiel Convenes His League Of Extraordinary WackaloonsForbesBrian Caulfield"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."READ MORE |
2012 Blueseed: The Googleplex of the SeaReasonAnthony Fisher"Marty believes that his seasteading venture Blueseed "is the solution to a problem" created by the archaic U.S. visa system"READ MORE |
2012 Citizenship for Sale: St. Kitts and Nevis, Plus SeasteadingReasonNick Sibilla"St. Kitts and Nevis is one of only two nations, along with the island of Dominica, that formally sell citizenship."READ MORE |
2012 Kiribati Buying Land from Dictatorship to Flee Rising Sea LevelsReasonNick Sibilla"Instead of relocating to Fiji, Kiribati should consider Seasteading, autonomous communities that would based in international waters."READ MORE |
2012 Seasteading in the Eyes of Mother JonesReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2012 Getting Around Big Government: The Seastead Revolution Begins to Take ShapeForbesDoug Bandow"But it may be possible to leapfrog government entirely. Imagine “seasteading”—living on a floating city outside of any country’s jurisdiction."READ MORE |
2012 Interview with The Seasteading InstituteCenter for International Maritime SecurityScott C-P"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."READ MORE |
2012 Start-up Nations on the High SeasDiscoverAdam Piore"Autonomous communities, floating in international waters, would allow political pioneers to test novel forms of government."READ MORE |
2012 My Sunset Cruise With the Clever, Nutty, Techno-Libertarian Seasteading GurusMother JonesJosh Harkinson"The vision: floating, autonomous city-states to bring about a social “Cambrian explosion”—without taxes or pesky regulators."READ MORE |
2012 Moon? Mars? No, it's seaward ho!New ScientistNew Scientist"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."READ MORE |
2012 Another Blow to the Cause of Honduran "Free Cities": Future Cities Development Organization Closing Up ShopReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2012 Don't Like The Government? Make Your Own, On International WatersNPR All Things ConsideredLaura SydellA 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.READ MORE |
2012 Blueseed: Getting Around Visa Requirements for Fun and ProfitReasonBrian Doherty"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)."READ MORE |
2013 Brian Doherty Discusses Libertarian New City Schemes on Huffington Post Live with Seasteading Institute Founder Patri FriedmanReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2013 Ocean living: A step closer to reality?BBCCharlie Deist"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?"READ MORE |
2013 Google CEO Endorses Free Cities-Style ExperimentsReasonReason Staff"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.""READ MORE |
2013 Why Doesn’t Government Get Better? The Case for Experimenting With MicrocountriesHuffpostJosiah Tullis"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? "READ MORE |
2013 SeasteadingN + 1Atossa Abrahamian"To get to Ephemerisle, the floating festival of radical self-reliance, I left San Francisco in a rental car and drove east through Oakland, along the California Delta Highway, and onto Route 4."READ MORE |
2013 A Normal Person Attends Libertarian Water Festival EphemerisleReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2013 Why do ‘Seasteaders’ love Bitcoin?CoindeskAriella Brown"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."READ MORE |
2013 Vid: "Startup Cities," Honduras, and Experiments in Freedom. Professor Tom W. Bell Talks With Reason.ReasonZach Weissmueller"Professor Tom W. Bell talks about "startup cities" and experiments in governance."READ MORE |
2013 Interview: Randolph Hencken, Executive Director of the Seasteading InstituteShadow ProofDan Wright"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."READ MORE |
2013 Seasteading: Interview with Randolph HenckenHumanity+ MagazineJesse Barksdale"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!"READ MORE |
2013 The Next Generation Of Pilgrims Want To Start Their Own Countries That Float At SeaBusiness InsiderDylan Love"Your hip, politically savvy friends probably say something like this with every election: 'If [so-and-so] wins, I'm leaving the country.'READ MORE |
2013 Clearing Up 3 Big Misconceptions About SeasteadingBusiness InsiderDylan Love"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."READ MORE |
2013 Seasteading New Nations Becomes a Practical Engineering ChallengeReasonJ.D. Tuccille"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."READ MORE |
2014 Escape From Political ControlReasonJerry Brito"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."READ MORE |
2014 PODCAST: Silicon Galley?MarketplaceDavid Brancaccio"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."READ MORE |
2014 Worried About Earth? Hit the High SeasThe TyeeGeoff Dembicki"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."READ MORE |
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2014 Habitats for FreedomReasonJ.D. Tuccille"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."READ MORE |
2014 Adam Carolla Becomes a Seasteader Live During Interview with Joe QuirkThe Adam Carolla ShowAdam Carolla“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.”READ MORE |
2014 The First Floating City “Seastead” with Substantial Autonomy by 2020?PanAm PostTony Escobar"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."READ MORE |
2014 For Libertarian Utopia, Float Away on ‘Startup’ NationBloombergEdward Robinson"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."READ MORE |
2014 If Seasteading Is Wrong, Leaving Your Country and Settling Elsewhere Must Also Be EvilReasonJ.D. Tuccille"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."READ MORE |
2014 The Entrepreneurs PodcastMonocleDaniel GiacopelliA podcast interview including an interview with Joe Quirk.READ MORE |
2014 Seasteading has enormous potential in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japane27e2"The Director of Communications at the Seasteading Institute Joe Quirk provides insights into the possibilities of seasteading"READ MORE |
2014 Has Floating Architecture’s Moment Finally Arrived?Next CityRachel Keeton"In a quiet, shady street in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, Koen Olthuis and the design team at Waterstudio are changing the world."READ MORE |
2014 Seasteading Institute Puts Floating City Technology To The TestFactorLucy Ingham"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."READ MORE |
2014 Dobbert de stad van de toekomst in de oceaan?KIJK MagazineAbhinabha TangermanEen 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.READ MORE |
2014 The Seasteading FrontierReal Clear Radio HourBill Frezza"Using the cruise industry as a model, Quirk predicts seasteading will become a reality for “aqua-preneurs” by the year 2020."READ MORE |
2015 It’s Happening: Seasteading — Liberty Through Floating CitiesThe Tom Woods ShowTom WoodsJoe Quirk interviewed by Tom Woods on his podcast.READ MORE |
2015 Is the Seasteading Dream Really Dead?ReasonBrian Doherty"Wired argues that "Silicon Valley is Letting Go of Its Techie Island Fantasies" on insufficient evidence."READ MORE |
2015 Seasteaders Meet Honduran ZEDErs in San Francisco to Discuss the Future of Competitive GovernanceReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2015 Will cities of the future FLOAT? $167 million project using concrete platforms could be home to 300 people by 2020Daily MailSarah Griffiths"If waking up to a sea breeze and panoramic ocean views is your idea of heaven, you might consider moving to a floating city."READ MORE |
2015 The Seasteading Institute announces 2015 Floating City Project – Architectural Design Contest winnersLifeboat FoundationOdette Bohr Dienel"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."READ MORE |
2015 Radical Offshore LivingLiberty.me StudioAlbert Lou“This isn’t about going and living off of the ocean without connecting to the greater world’s societies”READ MORE |
2016 Free Cities Podcast interview with Joe QuirkFree Cities PodcastFree Cities Podcast"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."READ MORE |
2016 Un Projet De « Cité Flottante » Présenté Au PaysRadio 1 TahitiAntoine Samoyeau"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."READ MORE |
2016 French Polynesia Could become HOme to The Seasteading Institute's First Floating City after Presidential MeetingFactorCallum Tyndall"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."READ MORE |
2016 “L’ère aquatique” débutera-t-elle au fenua ?ActuCaroline PerdrixLa 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 ?READ MORE |
2016 Oceantop Living in a Seastead - Realistic, Sustainable, and Coming SoonHuffpostJames Carli"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?"READ MORE |
2016 Can housing solutions be found on the ocean?The San Diego Union-TribuneJoe Mathews"Why can’t we solve California’s devastating housing shortage?READ MORE |
2016 Reactions to Trump FDA Chief Rumor: Unmitigated, and Unsupported, Fear of a Libertarian PlanetReasonBrian Doherty"Jim O'Neill condemned by Gizmodo as "insane" for believing in regulatory techniques that can speed life-saving medicines to marketREAD MORE |
2016 Seasteaders Plan to Build a Libertarian Utopia on the High SeasBig ThinkPhilip Perry"The idea is to build a floating city at least 200 miles off of a country’s coastline."READ MORE |
2017 Seasteading Institute Comes to Agreement with French Polynesia About Developing a SeasteadReasonBrian Doherty"If the bureaucratic hurdles can be jumped, a real seastead could be floating in French Polynesian water in 2018."READ MORE |
2017 World's first custom-built floating city to rise off French Polynesian watersABC NewsStephanie Boltje"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."READ MORE |
2017 French Polynesia signs first 'floating city' dealBBCBBC"French Polynesia has signed an agreement that supporters hope could pave the way for autonomous floating cities around the world."READ MORE |
2017 Plans for world's first 'floating city' unveiled: Radical designs could be built in the Pacific Ocean in 2019Daily MailEllie Zolfagharifard"The government of French Polynesia has signed a deal with Seasteading Institute to begin construction work in just two years."READ MORE |
2017 World's First Floating City to Combat Rising Sea LevelsEcoWatchLorraine Chow"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."READ MORE |
2017 Plans For World’s First "Floating City" To Be Built In The Pacific In Two Years' TimeIFL ScienceKaty Evans"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."READ MORE |
2017 Le protocole d’accord entre le Pays et le Seasteading Institute dévoiléActuC.P."Nous publions en exclusivité le "memorandum of understanding" signé par le Pays et le Seasteading Institute, le fameux projet d'îles flottantes en Polynésie."READ MORE |
2017 As Climate Change Accelerates, Floating Cities Look Like Less of a Pipe DreamNY TimesMike Ives"You might call it a Noah’s Ark for an era of melting polar ice sheets."READ MORE |
2017 French Polynesia Plans Floating IslandThe Maritime ExecutiveThe Maritime Executive"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."READ MORE |
2017 Zu Hause auf dem OzeanSpiegelHolgar Dambeck"Der Meeresspiegel und die Grundstückspreise steigen. Warum nicht auf die Ozeane ausweichen? In schwimmenden Städten könnten Tausende Menschen leben - vielleicht sogar als eigenständige Nation."READ MORE |
2017 Zu Hause auf dem OzeanSpiegelHolger Dambeck"Der Meeresspiegel und die Grundstückspreise steigen. Warum nicht auf die Ozeane ausweichen? In schwimmenden Städten könnten Tausende Menschen leben - vielleicht sogar als eigenständige Nation."READ MORE |
2017 World’s first floating city to be developed in French PolynesiaDutch water sectorDurch Water SectorThe 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.READ MORE |
2017 Why French Polynesia Could Have the World’s First Floating CityArcitectual DigestNick MafiAs climate change forces us to reimagine future cities, building floating structures seems to be a realistic proposalREAD MORE |
2017 Floating countries of the future - this could be your new homeAustralian Broadcasting CompanyBrigid Andersen and Margot O'Neill"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?READ MORE |
2017 The plan to create ocean colonies on the high seasABC NetMargot OnielImagine 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.READ MORE |
2017 Faced with rising seas, French Polynesia ponders floating islandsThomson Reuters Foundation NewsSebastien Malo"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."READ MORE |
2017 Flucht ins Niemandsland und auf künstliche Inseln?eigentümlich freiVictor Tiberius"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."READ MORE |
2017 SeasteadingManhattan Book ReviewRyder Miller"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."READ MORE |
2017 Îles flottantes : le Seasteading Institute à la rencontre des scientifiquesActuActuDeux 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.READ MORE |
2017 The Floating Utopias of the FutureWall Street JournalShlomo AngelNew 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.READ MORE |
2017 Seasteading’s Challenge to the Perennial SalonLibertarian InstitudeEdward Kelso?READ MORE |
2017 PanAm Podcast with Joe Quirk: How Floating Nations Will Reshape Our WorldPanAm PostDavid Unsworth"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."READ MORE |
2017 Seasteading: Homesteading for the 21st CenturyKQEDMichael Krasny"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."READ MORE |
2017 Les îles flottantes en conférence cette semaineTahiti InfosJacques Franc de FerrièreLe 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.READ MORE |
2017 « Construire des îles d’excellence, des archipels de connaissance »ActuC.P."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."READ MORE |
2017 Un projet d'îles artificielles en Polynésie françaiseOuest FranceOuest France"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."READ MORE |
2017 Joe Quirk: Seasteading Is the Story of ProgressGuernicaMaya Weeks"The floating-cities advocate says moving to the oceans will save us from environmental catastrophe."READ MORE |
2017 Talks in Tahiti on floating island planRNZDateline Pacific"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."READ MORE |
2017 Première Conférence Internationale sur les Îles Flottantes à Tahiti du 15 au 18 maiMediapartPierre CarpentierL'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.READ MORE |
2017 Floating island off Tahiti aims to be eco-friendlyRadio New ZealandDateline Pacific"A French Polynesian environmentalist helping proponents of a floating island in the territory says it's likely to mean little harm to the environment."READ MORE |
2017 Libertarians Seek a Home on the High SeasThe New RepublicRachel Riederer"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."READ MORE |
2017 How to build your own countryCNN OpinionJoe Quirk"If you'd like to live in a country that caters to your values and lifestyle, why not build your own?"READ MORE |
2017 Seasteading in ParadiseReasonBrian Doherty"New promise for floating free communities in a Polynesian lagoon—but is the movement leaving libertarianism behind?"READ MORE |
2017 As sea levels rise, are floating cities the future?Yale Climate ConnectionsDaisy Simmons"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."READ MORE |
2017 It's not just Amazon coming for Whole Foods – Silicon Valley is eating the worldThe GuardianArwa Mahdawi"Tech titans are also busy rethinking the role of the nation state."READ MORE |
2017 Joe Quirk on the Future of Cities in the SeaFault LinesLee Stranahan"Will Kevin Costner be involved? What about storms?"READ MORE |
2017 Seasteading: New Societies on the Floating FrontierLiving on EarthLiving on EarthCalifornia'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.READ MORE |
2017 Ep. 948 Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Improve the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from PoliticiansTom WoodsTom Woods"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."READ MORE |
2017 Leben ohne StaatHandelsblatt GmbHJan Guldner"Keinen Markt dominiert der Staat so sehr wie den Markt für gesellschaftlichesREAD MORE |
2017 RISING SEA LEVELS COULD UNLOCK THE SEASTEAD ERAInverseJacqueline Ronson“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.”READ MORE |
2017 Return of the city-stateAeonSam Haselby"If a nation cannot defend its border, it ceases to exist in any meaningful way."READ MORE |
2017 Seasteading 101: How to Build the World’s First Society-at-SeaBig ThinkMarc Collins"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."READ MORE |
2017 Why fake islands might be a real boon for scienceNatureEmma Marris"The seasteading movement is getting close to building its first prototype, an artificial archipelago where people will live, play and do research."READ MORE |
2017 How “Seasteading” Might Just Solve All the World’s Problems (Book Review)The Daily BellJoe Jarvis"Joe Quirk is a guy who likes to joke around, so I assumed the title was a lighthearted exaggeration. A hyperbolic hook.READ MORE |
2017 Des îles incubateurs : une utopie artificielle en Polynésie FrançaiseSciences AvenirCamille Gaubert"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."READ MORE |
2017 Quirk, do Seasteading: Futuro são nações flutuantes e inovadorasexameRaphael Martins"O objetivo do The Seasteading Institute é concentrar cientistas em ilhas, inclusive fundando uma nova forma de fazer política, para estimular a inovação"READ MORE |
2017 Floating Cities, No Longer Science Fiction, Begin to Take ShapeThe New York TimesDavid Gelles"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."READ MORE |
2017 Libertarian billionaires want to make Waterworld a realityVice NewsAlex Lubben"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."READ MORE |
2017 World's first floating city to be built off the coast of French Polynesia by 2020IndependentJosh Gabbatiss"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"READ MORE |
2017 Buckminster Fuller, Joe Quirk, and How to Walk on WaterBaer EngineeringCade Summers"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."READ MORE |
2017 One man's plan to save the world by building floating island nationsThe Dori Monson ShowDori MonsonJoe 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."READ MORE |
2017 Are politically independent floating cities the future?BBCNewsday"Want to change the world? Well how about going to live on a city that sails about in the tropical waters of French Polynesia?"READ MORE |
2017 World’s 1st Ever Floating City Will Be Ready By 2020 And, I’m Planning The Move Already!StorypickStorypickers"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!"READ MORE |
2017 The world’s first floating city will be built in the South PacificWorld Economic ForumWorld Economic Forum"Rising above threats and challenges."READ MORE |
2017 This Will Be The First Floating City In The WorldMind Body GreenEmma Loewe"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."READ MORE |
2017 World's first floating village to breathe new life into old dreamNBC NewsTom Metcalfe"Cities at sea, afloat on the waves, have long been a cherished dream for forward-thinking architects and science fiction writers."READ MORE |
2017 The Sustainabilist - Climate ChangeIssuuDubi CarbonClimate Change: A Private Sector AffairREAD MORE |
2017 The future of floating cities – and the realitiesBBCEllie Cosgrave"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."READ MORE |
2017 Floating cities could be a real thing by 2020CTVCTV"The first ever-floating city is set to appear in 2020—and by 2050, thousands could exist around the world."READ MORE |
2017 L'île flottante sera-t-elle financée en bitcoins ?Tahiti InfosTahiti Infos"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"READ MORE |
2017 Officials Just Signed a Contract to Build The World’s First Floating VillageFuturism.comNBC Mach"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."READ MORE |
2017 Seasteading: Floating city aiming to cast off in 2020CTV NewsCTV News"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."READ MORE |
2017 Seasteading: Floating city aiming to cast off in 2020CTV NewsSCI-Tech"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."READ MORE |
2017 The incredible floating cities we could be living on in the not-too-distant futureThe i PaperHeather Chinn"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."READ MORE |
2017 Plovoucí ráj v Polynésii má do tří let uvítat první osadníkynovinkymcm"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."READ MORE |
2017 Podcast: Does Our Future Lie Within Ocean Cities?52 Insights52 Insights"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?"READ MORE |
2017 Incredible images reveal a futuristic vision inspired by Polynesian traditions for the world's first floating nation planned for the Pacific Ocean by 2020Daily Mail OnlineTim Collins"Now, a series of computer generated graphics reveal how it might look once complete, with a design that blends futuristic technology with Polynesian traditions."READ MORE |
2017 Inside the incredible floating nations designed to ‘free people from politicians’ planned for the Pacific by 2020The SunJacob DirnhuberThese 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 ThielREAD MORE |
2017 Îles flottantes : les premiers détails du projetActuCP"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."READ MORE |
2017 Îles flottantes : Marc Collins détaille les avancées du projetFrance TVSuliane Favennec"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."READ MORE |
2017 Joe Quirk Discusses The Possibility of Floating CitiesNewsmax TVNewsMaxJoe Quirk Discusses the possibility of floating cities as early as 2020, and his book Seasteading.READ MORE |
2017 Îles flottantes : les premiers détails du projetACTUC.P."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."READ MORE |
2017 SAVVY: Colonising the SeasNew Straits TimesOon Yeoh"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.:READ MORE |
2017 How the world’s first floating city could restore the environmentIn HabitatLacy Cooke"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."READ MORE |
2017 Floating isle off Tahiti seeks Pacific residentsRadio New ZealandRNZ"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."READ MORE |
2017 Permanent floating communities are possible climate change answerNewshubSimon Shepherd"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."READ MORE |
2017 太平洋に浮かぶ「人工都市」が、2019年建設開始。Tabi LaboA.Ikeda (ライター)遠い海の果てには理想郷がある。READ MORE |
2018 Exploring the great blue frontierThe Daily SentinelGreg Walcher"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?"READ MORE |
2018 Seasteading: Come for the Algae Bacon, Stay for the FreedomWiredGeek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast"Floating cities of the future would feature vast underwater algae farms that would provide a healthy food source for residents."READ MORE |
2018 David Slack: Maybe I found an islandStuffDavid Slack"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."READ MORE |
2018 Selling Sovereignty on the Retail LevelReasonBrian Doherty"Cutting-edge libertarian-world projects such as Seasteading and Liberland are rooted in the idea of widening competition in sovereignty."READ MORE |
2018 Seasteading Progress May Be Halted in French PolynesiaReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2018 The Landscape Of Innovative GovernanceJacobiteMark Lutter"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."READ MORE |
2018 Does humanity's future lie out at sea?BBC IdeasBBC Radio 4"Forget Mars... in the future, humanity will live at sea argues Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute."READ MORE |
2018 Does humanity's future lie out at sea?BBCSomethin' Else"Forget Mars... in the future, humanity will live at sea argues Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute."READ MORE |
2018 Floating island backers say French Polynesia project still onRadio New ZealandRNZ"The project's backers said they were still in talks with the government which earlier said a deal was void."READ MORE |
2018 Is 'seasteading' a delusion or could floating cities be a lifeline for Pacific nations?ABC ScienceCarl Smith"The proposed location is a calm, circular Tahitian atoll.READ MORE |
2018 Seasteading: could artificial floating cities be a lifeline for low-lying Pacific nations?The Science ShowCarl SmithCarl Smith puts the idea of 'seasteading' under the microscope, and digs through the history of Australia's pioneering floating hotel project.READ MORE |
2018 Could floating cities be a lifeline for Pacific nations?Radio New ZealandRNZ"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."READ MORE |
2018 Could floating cities be a lifeline for Pacific nations?RNZABC"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."READ MORE |
2018 A pilot project for a new libertarian floating city will have 300 homes, its own government, and its own cryptocurrencyBusiness InsiderLeanna Garfield"In May 2018, the institute embarked on a pilot project with the government of French Polynesia. The group plans to build 300 houses on an island, which will run under its own governance and use its own cryptocurrency called Varyon by 2022."READ MORE |
2018 A pilot project for a new libertarian floating city will have 300 homes, its own government, and its own cryptocurrencyBusiness InsiderLeanna Garfield"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.'"READ MORE |
2018 This floating ‘utopia’ will have its own government and cryptocurrency by 2022 – to beat rising sea levelsThe SunSaqib Shah"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"READ MORE |
2018 Blue Frontiers creating 300 residence seastead funded with their own cryptocurrencyNext Big FutureBrian Wang"Investors can now take part in a presale of Vayron, the cryptocurrency the Seasteading Institute, the organisation behind the plan, will use."READ MORE |
2018 World's first floating nation begins selling its own 'Vayron' cryptocurrency ahead of 2022 launch in the Pacific OceanDaily MailMark Prigg"Investors can now take part in a presale of Vayron, the cryptocurrency the Seasteading Institute, the organisation behind the plan, will use."READ MORE |
2018 Floating Island Crypto Nation Aims for New Way of GovernanceNews BTCNews BTC"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."READ MORE |
2018 Floating City: A Sci-Fi Trope Or A Salvation For Many Nations?WhatsOrbAriana M"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."READ MORE |
2018 Seasteading: An interview with Joe Quirk, President of the Seasteading Institute.Charter Cities Institute BlogDr. Mark Lutter"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."READ MORE |
2018 Seasteading and Health Care: Islands of InnovationFoundation for Economic EducationBrittany Hunter"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."READ MORE |
2018 Your Climate Change Survival PlanMediumStarre Julia VartanSeasteading 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.”READ MORE |
2018 All aboard: Are these the cities of the future?9 NewsA Current Affair Staff |
2018 Seasteading: This Isn’t Planet EarthMithila ReviewJoe QuirkIf nine billion of us are to survive in 2050, we are charged with six moral imperatives as ancient as they are urgent:READ MORE |
2018 Sailing Towards SustainabilityStrataKabeia Rineaki Brock Sutton Allen"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."READ MORE |
2018 Beyond democracy: could seasteads and cryptocurrencies replace the nation state?The SpectatorPatri Friedman“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”READ MORE |
2018 How Seasteading Can Change The Environment And Society For The BetterThe FederalistRobert Zubrin“[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.”READ MORE |
2018 Will Seasteading Create the First Non-Violent Nations?Foundation for Economic EducationDavid Gornoski"An ocean-platform community voluntarily funded and organized, if successful, is a monumental event in human anthropology."READ MORE |
2019 The blue economy and seasteading: A key growth driver for SingaporeThe Buisness TimesYap Shi Wen"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."READ MORE |
2019 Civilization 6: Gathering Storm – new leaders, abilities and unitsVG 24/7Lauren Aitken"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."READ MORE |
2019 Seasteading: The Reality TV ShowReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2019 First Seastead in International Waters Now Occupied, Thanks to Bitcoin WealthReasonBrian Doherty"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."READ MORE |
2019 Bitcoin Early Adopters Build Seasteading Home off the Coast of ThailandBitcoin.comAvInterest 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.READ MORE |
2019 Seasteading Starts Small Off Coast of Thailand, but It Is StartingReasonBrian Doherty"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.""READ MORE |
2019 Sea Levels Are Rising. Time to Build ... Floating Cities?WiredDaniel OberhausIf climate change ends up coming for your home, you could move inland. Or you could decamp to tessellated platforms floating on the ocean.READ MORE |
2019 Seastead couple in crosshairsBangkok PostAchadthaya Chuenniran and Chairith Yonpiam"Navy complaint over 'living platform'"READ MORE |
2019 Thai Government Takes Over Seastead Near the Thai CoastReasonBrian Doherty"The Thai government thinks floating around just outside its territorial waters could justify a death sentence for seasteaders."READ MORE |
2019 UN Brings Back Controversial Floating City ConceptEngineering.comEmily Pollock"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."READ MORE |
2019 Seasteading Bitcoin Fans Say They're 'On the Run' From Thai GovernmentViceJordan Pearson"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."READ MORE |
2019 American, Thai partner in hiding, fearful of charges for seastead south of PhuketThe Phuket NewsThe Phuket News"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."READ MORE |
2019 Navy to remove 'seasteading' floating home off Phuket coasBangkok PostAchadthaya Chuenniran"Floating living platform deemed 'threat to sovereignty'"READ MORE |
2019 Bitcoin couple may face death penalty in Thailand over 'seasteading' effortFox NewsTravis FedschunA 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.READ MORE |
2019 This is why the Thai navy busted a ‘seasteading’ AmericanNY TimesGrant PeckThai 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.READ MORE |
2019 Thailand Says US Man's Seasteading Home Violates SovereigntyNewsmax WorldAP"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."READ MORE |
2019 The “freest person in the world” faces a possible death penalty in ThailandQuartzDaniel Wolfe"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."READ MORE |
2019 US bitcoin trader and girlfriend could face death penalty over Thai 'seastead'CNNRob Picheta and Kocha Olarn"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."READ MORE |
2019 Thai navy tows floating home of fugitive U.S. 'seasteader'ReutersPanu Wongcha-um"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."READ MORE |
2019 Seastead lifted ashore at Phuket portBangkok PostAchadthaya Chuenniran"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."READ MORE |
2019 Chad Elwartowski: 5 Fast Facts You Need to KnowHeavyStephanie Dube Dwilson"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."READ MORE |
2019 Seasteading Movement Seeks To Build Floating CitiesNanalyzeNanalyze"There’s a movement by a group of aqua pioneers that wants to build eco-friendly, self-governing floating cities called seasteading."READ MORE |
2019 Bitcoin Trading Volume Surges 250% In Thailand After ‘seasteading’ FiascoBitcoinistMatthew North"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."READ MORE |
2019 A Libertarian Nirvana at Sea Runs Into a Stubborn Opponent: the Thai NavyThe Wall Street JournalJames Hookway"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."READ MORE |
2019 Elon Musk Gets Some New Twitter RulesBloomberg OpinionMatt LevineAlso Bayer, Schwab, personal finance and seasteading.READ MORE |
2019 Seasteading Goes AdriftSlateJoshua Keating"The libertarian movement to build independent nations on floating platforms has hit a few snags."READ MORE |
2019 Tecumseh seasteader and girlfriend safe but still on the run from Thai authoritiesDaily TelegraDmitriy Shapiro"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."READ MORE |
2019 “Seasteading” and National Sovereignty in the CaribbeanSt. Lucia The StarEd Kennedy"By many measures the Caribbean region offers more freedom to aspiring ‘citizens of the world’ than anywhere else on the planet."READ MORE |
2019 The World’s First Seasteaders Are Now on the Run for Their LivesFEEBrittany Hunter"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."READ MORE |
2019 Floating cities are getting far closer to reality than ever before — but they won't be the libertarian utopias billionaires have proposedBusiness InsiderAria Bendix"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."READ MORE |
2019 Luxury Bunkers for the End of the WorldSlateApril Glaser and Max Read"Growing fears about natural disasters, nuclear war, and a slew of other threats are causing people to buy fancy underground apartments."READ MORE |
2019 I study floating cities. I’m convinced offshore living is the futureFast CompanyNathalie Mezza-GarciaIt 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.READ MORE |
2019 Podcast: Seasteading – Investing Opportunities on the High SeasThe Real Estate GuysRobert Helms and Russell Gray"This show’s a little quirky … in more ways than one!READ MORE |
2019 Stossel: Live Free at SeaReasonJohn Stossel"How can we live free? Governments impose rules and control all land on earth."READ MORE |
2019 Start Your Own Country!ReasonJohn Stossel"Unfortunately, most of the world's land is controlled by rapacious governments unwilling to let others experiment. But fortunately, that still leaves oceans."READ MORE |
2019 Future ahoy: Are you ready to live in a floating city?San Franciso ChronicleGregory Thomas"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."READ MORE |
2019 Andrew Yang Injected Silicon Valley’s Favorite Economic Idea Into The Democratic Debate. Silicon Valley Isn’t So Happy About That.Buzzfeed NewsAlex Kantrowitz"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."READ MORE |
2019 Waterworld? Floating Cities Turn Hollywood Sci-Fi Into Reality As Sea Levels RiseForbesWade Shepard"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."READ MORE |
2019 How Two Seasteaders Wound Up Marked for DeathReasonBrian Doherty"If a tiny floating cottage brought down the wrath of the Thai navy, is there any hope for stateless life at sea?"READ MORE |
2019 Titus Gebel Discusses His Legal Proposals for Free Private CitiesThe Bob Murphy ShowRobert Murphy"Bob discusses Titus’ proposal and how it differs from other types of abstract libertarian theorizing."READ MORE |
2019 The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is LandBloombergLizette Chapman"Patri Friedman is sick of the jokes about floating tax havens."READ MORE |
2019 Seasteading! How About Living On The Sea?The Gold Collar InvestorPancham Gupta"Can seasteading create a free, stable society and thus, spur innovation? Tune in to learn more."READ MORE |
2019 Noisy birds to holograms, eight curious property rights debates in 2019PlaceRina Chandran"Here is a look at eight property rights disputes that broke new ground in 2019"READ MORE |
2019 จาก Refugee ถึง Seasteading และ Human Flow “คนไร้บ้าน” ถูกบังคับ หรือสมัครใจSalikaJankkrit Siririn"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""READ MORE |
2020 Are Floating Hotels, Office Buildings the |
2020 Billionaires’ biggest vanity projectsLove MoneyFrances CarruthersDespite 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.READ MORE |
2020 How Coronavirus will change the entrepreneurial opportunity landscapeThe Business Model ScholarThe Business Model Scholar"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."READ MORE |
2020 Ephemerisle is Burning Man on boats in the Sacramento River Delta – San Francisco ChronicleFuturist Transhuman News BlogFuturist Transhuman News Blog"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."READ MORE |
2020 Silicon Valley elites plan to quit terra firma for seasteading communitiesThe TelegraphMargi MurphyThe politically autonomous dwellings based in international waters have long held an appeal for those in thrall to disrupting the status quoREAD MORE |
2020 Silicon Valley tech tycoons are moving to futuristic sea abodesTatlerAnnabel SampsonTo 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 remoteREAD MORE |
2020 Abandon land for a less-taxing lifeThe TimesJames Dean"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."READ MORE |
2020 A good time to live on the ocean? 'Seasteaders' double down during pandemicNBC NewsDavid IngramThe 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.READ MORE |
2020 Demand for Charter Cities During Covid-19 Pandemic Grows Exponential - People Desire Semi-Autonomous ZonesBitcoin.comJamie Redman"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."READ MORE |
2020 Silicon Valley's elite wants yet again to abandon land and live on floating cities in the middle of the ocean that operate outside of existing governmentsBusiness InsiderKatie CanalesThe 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.READ MORE |
2020 Seasteading – a vanity project for the rich or the future of humanity?The GuardianOliver Wainwright"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."READ MORE |
2020 Seasteading: um projeto de vaidade para os ricos ou o futuro da humanidade?HypescienceNatasha Romanzoti"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."READ MORE |
2020 The Week Unwrapped - with Olly MannDennis PublishingOlly ManWhat is seasteading?READ MORE |
2020 Billionaire ‘Seasteading’ Obsessives Believe The Time Is Now [Video]2 Oceans VibeCarrie"These aren’t your reclaimed plastic, hippy islands, though.READ MORE |
2020 This libertarian Bitcoin trader wants to build a city on the seaDecryptAdriana Hamacher"Thanks to the coronavirus, “seasteading” is enjoying a renaissance among the tech elite. But this time, they’re seeking permission."READ MORE |
2020 Tento libertariánský obchodník s Bitcoiny a představitel konceptu seasteading chce postavit město na mořiCryptoSvetRoman BlechaChad 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.READ MORE |
2020 Joe Quirk Creating a Society at SeaThe EssentialMatt Beaudreau"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."READ MORE |
2020 Floating Cities the UN's Solution to Land Scarcity or Science Fiction Dream?PropmodoSamantha Brown"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."READ MORE |
2020 Seria possível construir uma cidade no mar? Ativistas estão desenvolvendo o projetoBahiaRaphael Minho"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."READ MORE |
2020 Seasteading: il futuro è vivere come un baccello nel mareiOPaola Piacenza"Sono i nuovi pionieri. Ma questa volta la frontiera che vogliono conquistare è liquida e le case, ipertecnologiche ed ecosostenibili, sono su palafitte."READ MORE |
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2020 Episode 30: Seasteading with Joe QuirkUnshackled Liberty PodcastQ the Abolitionist"This is a libertarian variety show where we discuss the value of reducing the role of government in our daily lives."READ MORE |
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2020 Floating Cities on Oceans in Our Future?MediumSalman Hasan"Is there a business case to re-envisioning our cities?"READ MORE |
2020 Calls for Silicon Valey elites to join floating offices at seaThe TelegraphMargi Murphy"The cruise ship has a familiar feel to those employed by Silicon Valley’s technology companies with extensive facilities"READ MORE |
2020 Seasteading: utopian floating cities or safe haven for western pirates?Green ProphetMiriam Kresh"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."READ MORE |
2020 LFN #64 – Joe Quirk on How Seasteading Will Help Us Find Freedom in an Unfree WorldLive Free Now PodcastJohn Bush"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."READ MORE |
2020 Could Floating Cities Be a Haven as Coastlines Submerge?Scientific AmericanDaniel Cusick"“Seasteader” housing built on platforms would rise and fall with the tides, but practical challenges are huge"READ MORE |
2021 U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Michael EliotG. Stolyarov IIG. Stolyarov II"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."READ MORE |