Seasteads are man-made islands that float permanently on the ocean with any measure of a political autonomy. They would essentially be startup societies where people could form whatever kind of community they wanted. — 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… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
“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
