Travis has created a seasteading sub-reddit. This is a site that allows you to share and vote on links, much like digg. This is a functionality I’ve wanted for the www.seasteading.org site from the beginning, so it’s great to have it!
How does a German express support for seasteading? By designing a board game, of course!
Marc-Felix Otto, part of a small German-speaking Libertarian group centered around the magazine eigentümlich frei, and who translated Machinery of Freedom into German, has created a game called “Pacific – Issue and Defend Your Own Law”. He describes it as:
Each player represents a “legislative agency”, defining his or her “law” along 8 “paragraphs”.
Thanks to a connection of Wayne’s, he & I got to talk to a long-time ResidenSea resident this afternoon, and I now know enormously more about the challenges of operating a condo cruise ship. Fascinating!
The challenges are daunting. ResidenSea, where the condo fees are like $200K/unit/year for the smaller units, is barely able to handle the logistical issues of traveling constantly, all over the world.
Over the past 3 months, someone has googled for seasteading every 7 minutes, on average. (And then clicked through to www.seasteading.org). That’s pretty good public awareness!
TSI is hiring: Director of Engineering and new internship program!
We are excited to announce that we are looking to fill the following positions. These are on-site roles here at the TSI offices in Palo Alto, CA…
The author writes: I have thought much about a seasteading concept in which the economy of the entire seastead is based on the manufacture of hydrogen, from windmills, wave and stream energy. I picture it as a modern day oil state, except it makes no oil, but it instead hydrogen and sell it to the big markets as fuel, for the benefit of the people who life there and take care of the installations. And as we all agree, it myst be in the sea.
One of my major projects during the summer and fall of this year will be getting the seasteading book in shape for publication (initially via POD). I have a giant pile of links and ideas about little sections to write – there is an arbitrary amount of nuance, fun speculation, and neat technologies that could go into the book. But I don’t have time, and even if I did the final result would be hugely bloated. So I need to start by 80/20ing the book – nuance and fun can be added later.
I want your help.
A map of 2008 pirate attacks may be of interest to y’all. It’s pretty cool, you can click through to the detailed report. I love how our world is filled with data!
Notice the complete lack of pirates in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, for example.
Their plans are inspired by the ethos of the modern tech industry, where grand quixotic visions are as common as BlackBerrys, and they see their task not as a holy mission but as something like a startup.
This is not fiction. It is happening now…
