Seasteaders at Anarchapulco
A few weeks ago, The Seasteading Institute team traveled to Acapulco to mix with liberty-loving free-thinkers at the 5th Annual Anarchapulco conference.
A few weeks ago, The Seasteading Institute team traveled to Acapulco to mix with liberty-loving free-thinkers at the 5th Annual Anarchapulco conference.
When a wave hits an iceberg, seals sleeping on it rarely feel it move. Floating oil rigs operate on the same principle. The submerged pontoons that support these floating societies are so heavy, workers often play ping pong on the high seas.
With seed funding from Patri Friedman & João Germano’s ZIG Fund, Shannon Lim works to develop floating islands in Singapore through his company OnHand Agrarian. The platforms will be made with creatively applied, existing technology which will create floating real estate at one-fifth the cost of land in Singapore.
The huge, non-obvious beneficiary of seasteading is the poor. – The Seasteading Institute Co-founder Patri Friedman
The new trailer for one of the most popular video games in the world climaxes with a seastead while the narrator calls for solutions to global challenges. It features a Polynesian voyaging canoe and what looks like a replica of our partner Blue21’s Floating Pavilion.
Seasteading is not a plan for society but a platform for anybody to try their own plans for society.
If you want a utopia, go build it. We’re bringing the smartest and most innovative people together to build multiple utopias. Our momentum is collecting people from around the world. We need help managing them and organizing projects to put them to work. We are a small, but mighty, team supported entirely by individuals who believe in us.
Everything we enjoy about modern life was once considered utopian fantasy.
I imagined 30 people. Next thing I know NuMundo posts a cell phone video of Randy speaking before an audience they claim numbered ~13,000.