I am headed to my sixth sponsored appearance at the Free Cities Conference, accompanied by the founders of ArkPad, ArkTide and LiberArx, to convince the free cities community that seasteading is the way forward.
I need feedback. Which of my talks at the Free Cities Conference makes you want to support seasteading?
Your answers will help guide me for my talk November 1.
My first presentation was in 2021, made remotely during lockdowns after Chad and Nadia lived aboard the first seastead in international waters. I tell the story of how they escaped the manhunt against them and triumphed to seastead again:
I think you’ll be astonished by our progress since then.
In 2022, I celebrated the heroic seasteaders’ design for the first seastead prototype in Panama.
“How soon will this actually happen?” asked the audience. Nobody believed it would take only two years.
Why are seasteaders even doing this?
History matters. You can’t see where you’re going if you don’t see where you came from. In 2023, I spoke about how the principles of classical liberalism emerge among competing polities, including pirates.
In 2024, nobody thought the seastead showcase would be built in two years. Yet here it was. My call to action:
Six months later, the Free Cities Foundation hosted an Online Summit. Five seastead entrepreneurs presented their visions. Here’s mine:
You’ll notice it features the vision of Simon Nummy, the award-winning architect in Dubai who volunteered to help seasteading.
Now the company Chad and Nadia cofounded, Ocean Builders, is building a floating city in the Maldives.
That’s a lot of progress in 5 years. We need to inspire more entrepreneurs to build. Which approach would persuade you to donate to support our work?
Want to get a first glimpse of the new seasteads? Join me and three seasteading entrepreneurs at the Free Cities Conference in Prague, Oct. 31-Nov. 2. Use the code “seasteading” to get €20 off until October 16th.
