“Seasteaders” Bring Startup Sensibility to the Blue Frontier

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I write novels and science books, and seasteading changed my life when I realized it’s the most important story I could tell. The technology to create floating eco-nations at sea is rapidly advancing, and 45% of the earth’s surface is unclaimed by existing states. This realization sparked the seasteading movement.

Seasteaders bring a startup sensibility to the problem of government monopolies that don’t innovate sufficiently. We plan to provide technological platforms for anybody with a better idea to try their micro-nation at sea. Floating startup nations won’t have to work within old broken governments, but will get to start afresh with twenty-first century ideas. Better yet, floating nations won’t lay claim over dissenting populations, but must persuade citizens to move there by providing better services. We believe a fluid market of competing services will unleash innovation in governance.

Seasteaders are a diverse global team of marine biologists, nautical engineers, aquaculture farmers, maritime attorneys, medical researchers, security personnel, investors, environmentalists, and artists. We plan to build seasteads to host profitable aquaculture farms, floating health care, medical research islands, and sustainable energy powerhouses. Our goal is to maximize entrepreneurial freedom to create blue jobs to welcome anyone to the Next New World.

We are credentialed, qualified, pragmatic idealists who plan to apply hard economics, evolutionary principles, and business savvy in order to create the first nations not to aggress against any people, and the first cities to restore the local ecology.

The nonprofit Seasteading Institute, where I serve as “seavangelist,” plans to build the first small floating city with substantial political autonomy by 2020. Over a thousand people have donated to the Institute, and hundreds have volunteered their expertise. We need your creativity. To learn more, please check out the 8 Great Moral Imperatives of Seasteading. I’ll see you on the Blue Frontier.

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Voice & Exit 2016 is this November. Tickets are on sale now but will sell out fast!