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Joe Quirk

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[Wikipedia] Joe Quirk is an American author originally from Westfield, New Jersey. His latest book is Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians. Quirk is also president of the non-profit Seasteading Institute.

Quotes by Joe Quirk

If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better…

Choices

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Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman…

Competing

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I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived…

20th century

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Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps,…

Evolution

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“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.”

Anthropology

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Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

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A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

Becoming

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Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the…

Bigs

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We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

Age

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Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

Humanity

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Seasteads are a technology for anybody to form an alternative community based on their unique values - for communities to organize themselves…

Chance

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You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

Creativity

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People can leave seasteads, or people can choose them, and people can create new seasteads if they want. This fluidity will engage…

Choices

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That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it.…

Can do

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Americans are very mobile and move around and choose the communities they want. On the ocean people would be even more mobile…

Choices

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Thinking about seasteading requires us to free ourselves of these broad political categories we're stuck with on land. People can make whatever…

Community

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Once you provide people with a platform to start their own country, every conceivable type of innovator reaches out to you with…

Country

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“Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves.”

Genes

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Seasteaders bring a Silicon Valley sensibility to the problem of governments not innovating sufficiently. Innovators are held back and stymied by existing…

21st century

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I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients…

Biology

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Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move…

Billionaire

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The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick…

Beautiful

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Seasteads are man-made islands that float permanently on the ocean with any measure of a political autonomy. They would essentially be startup…

Autonomy

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