“Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move there. If I was a billionaire I wouldn't want to move to a seastead, but if I was a member of the bottom billion, most of whom want to leave their dysfunctional governments, I might want to move to a seastead.” PeopleIfsWayWantGovernmentMightMovingCostSucceedMembersBottomBillionsBillionaire Author:Joe Quirk
“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 seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.” PeopleIfsGovernmentCan DoFailingGoing AwayMarvellous Author:Joe Quirk
“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 choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.” IfsTwoSelfBigsWantedMovingTechnologyImagineSeaOilShipsPlatformsFloatingFloatsGovernanceNeighbourCruiseDocksCruise ShipsHigh Seas Author:Joe Quirk