“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 we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksChildrenGovernmentChoicesCitiesImagineCenturyCitizensOur ChildrenPrimitive21st Century20th CenturyFloatingLiving OnMarvellous Author:Joe Quirk
“People can leave seasteads, or people can choose them, and people can create new seasteads if they want. This fluidity will engage an evolutionary market process that'll allow a diversity of societies to emerge that will in principle be superior, simply because people chose them. Governments on land don't allow this fluid dynamic of choice.” PeopleChoicesDiversity Author:Joe Quirk
“Americans are very mobile and move around and choose the communities they want. On the ocean people would be even more mobile and empowered to link up with people they enjoyed, and detach and move away from people they did not. Increasing choice is a way to foster fulfillment in people's lives. I choose my friends and I'd prefer to choose my neighbors too.” PeopleMovingChoicesCommunityOceanNeighborFulfillmentEmpowered Author: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 choice. Seasteads won't attract them without offering them better options.” PeopleChoicesPoorTechnologyPoor People Author:Joe Quirk