I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Thinking about seasteading requires us to free ourselves of these broad political categories we're stuck with on land. People can make whatever community system they want on a seastead. What emerges will totally defy the broad categories we debate about… — 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
People can leave seasteads, or people can choose them, and people can create new seasteads if they want. This fluidity will engage an evolutionary… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Americans are very mobile and move around and choose the communities they want. On the ocean people would be even more mobile and empowered… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
