The Seasteading Institute Winter 2011 Newsletter
Table of Contents
What’s New at The Seasteading Institute
- Our 2011 Seasteading Strategy and New Research Papers Available Online
- Seasteading Business Pioneers: Introducing the Magellan Network
- Welcoming Our New Legal Strategist, Dario Mutabdzija
- John Chisholm Joins Our Board of Directors
- Announcing Our Business Plan Contest Winners
- Visionary Non-Profits Converge at Breakthrough Philanthropy Event
In the World
Donor Profile
Call to Action
Quarterly Updates
What’s New at The Seasteading Institute
Our 2011 Seasteading Strategy and New Research Papers Available Online
The Seasteading Institute believes that incrementalism — the breaking down of our ambitious vision into manageable, practical steps — is the best way to realize the seasteading vision.
The first step of our 2011 strategy therefore focuses on movement-building (building awareness, engaging our community, and inspiring future seasteading entrepreneurs) and research (addressing the engineering, legal, and business barriers to seasteading).
Below is a sample of papers that we, as well as the seasteading community, have published for free on our website:
- Law and Politics
- Seasteading: Institutional Innovation on the Open Ocean [PDF] (Patri Friedman, Brad Taylor) – This economics working paper is our most important research paper, as it explains why seasteading is a powerful lever to improve government and thus make the world better.
- Governing Seasteads: An Outline of the Options [PDF] (Brad Taylor) – Lays out criteria for good governance, and examines historical forms of governance in light of those criteria.
- American Law Enforcement Jurisdiction over Homesteads on the High Seas [PDF] (O. Shane Balloun) – Discusses U.S. admiralty law, and the nature and extent of its jurisdiction over seasteads.
- Engineering
- Feasibility and Design of the ClubStead: A Cable-stayed Floating Structure for Offshore Dwellings – Analysis of the ClubStead, our 200-guest hotel/resort sized for the waves 200 nautical miles off Los Angeles.
- State of the Art of Oceanic Industry for the Establishment of Autonomous Ocean Communities (Miguel Lamas Pardo, Luis Manuel Carral Cuece, Patri Friedman). This paper surveys the economic, legal, and engineering challenges for a variety of proposed seastead architectures and discusses flotels and previous attempts to build ocean communities.
- Seasteading and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Classification Societies (Miguel Lamas Pardo) – This paper provides an overview of the international maritime regulations that govern the seaworthiness of vessels.
To read more about our plans for 2011, be sure to visit our strategy page.
