Jonathan Goldstein of Wiretap, a talk radio program and podcast on CBC’s Radio One, interviewed Patri Friedman to find out about the motivations and goals of the Seasteading Institute.
Direct link to episode MP3: No Man is an Island
Michael Strong‘s talk from the 2009 Seasteading Conference is now online:
Here’s the book’s website. It is called Universal Coverage, and asks: “If the system failed you, how far would you go to save your child?”.
I have a post up at Let A Thousand Nations Bloom about how seasteading is the opposite of the Berlin Wall:
The Wall thus represented the brute force attempt of the USSR, purveyor of an inferior product, to lock-in its customers. It was literally, directly, physically a means of increasing the cost of switching government.
The suggestion of recycling the North Pacific Garbage Patch into building materials gets made a lot. While creative and elegant, with a little examination it turns out to be completely economically unfeasible, and actually wasteful of resources.
Think of it this way. Suppose it were possible to profitably turn trash into building materials. The most efficient way to do this would be to buy a landfill and recycle it. Compared to this strategy, using trash from the garbage patch has a number of major disadvantages:
1) Operating at sea is very expensive.
At the Seasteading 2009 Conference, we were excited to unveil our new medium-term strategy, which we’ve dubbed The Poseidon Project. By 2015, TSI will create an independent seasteading community as the seed for the world’s first ocean city-state.
Hello everybody,
We have updated our design requirements, and we’d like your feedback on it.
These requirements have suggested two different paths to us, which we are exploring at the moment.
Terry Floyd gave an unconference presentation at Seasteading09 about the possibility of holding a conference on a cruise ship. This could replace or supplement our 2010 Conference (for example, it could be in a different region like Europe, Asia, or the US Eastern Seaboard). Terry created a survey which many conference attendees have filled out, and we’d like to get y’alls responses as well.
BTW, videos from the conference should start appearing this week or next!
ClubStead’s architect Wendy Sitler-Roddier answers a number of questions about the ClubStead design:
1) What parts of the ClubStead Project were you specifically part of, and who was responsible for the other (building and architectural) details?
MI&T designed and engineered the platform for the proposed ClubStead structure and I was commissioned by MI&T to conceptualize the architecture on the 400’-0” by 400’-0” square deck.
We have a new job posting up:
TSI’s Development Manager will be working on two main areas: Community & Awareness, and Fundraising. On the Community side, they will help manage events, PR, TSI’s membership program, community feedback, and related areas.
