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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 regulations, and we want to give them 21st century regulations on start-up governments.” quote by Joe Quirk — Download Open image

“Seasteaders bring a Silicon Valley sensibility to the problem of governments not innovating sufficiently. Innovators are held back and stymied by existing regulations, and we want to give them 21st century regulations on start-up governments.”

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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…

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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 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…

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

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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, 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…

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

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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.

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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 high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could…

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

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

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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 however they…

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

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