Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently.… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a Google engineer and theorist of political economy who realized that if society floated, it would completely change the nature of governance itself. If seasteads are modular and can be moved about, allowing people to choose new… — Joe Quirk Copy Share
I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in life itself. What stunned me about seasteading is that it's a technology for variation and selection in governance itself. The reason some two hundred nation-states do a poor job of governing seven billion people is that… — Joe Quirk Copy Share
“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.” — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas,… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves however they… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
