In these "thought-provoking visions of the future" ( The Wall Street Journal ), Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute explain how ocean cities can solve many of our environmental, technological, and civic problems, and introduce the visionaries and pioneers who are now making seasteading a reality.
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Friedman, the grandson of economist Milton Friedman, currently works at Google, runs a micro-venture capital fund, and lives with his family in San Jose, California.
He also founded the annual Ephemerisle Floating festival.
Patri Friedman founded The Seasteading Institute in 2008 with seed funding from PayPal founder Peter Thiel.
Visit him at Seasteading.org.
He lives in Oakland, California.
Quirk co-leads a team working to establish the first seastead with unprecedented political autonomy in the waters of a host nation.
He has taught at Lekha School of Creative Writing in San Jose and served as a freelance science humor consultant at Pixar.
About the Author: Joe Quirk serves as "Seavangelist" at the Seasteading Institute.
Seasteading "offers hope for a future when life on land has grown grim" ( Kirkus Reviews ), proving the adage that yesterday\'s science fiction is tomorrow\'s science fact.
An entrepreneur\'s dream, these Floating cities Will become laboratories for innovation and creativity.
Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman show us how cities built on Floating platforms in the ocean Will work, and they profile some of the visionaries who are implementing basic concepts of seasteading today.
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Future societies where people could choose the communities they want to live in, free from the restrictions of conventional citizenship.
A previously untapped source of farming that could produce significant new sources of nutrition.
But imagine a vast new source of sustainable and renewable energy that would also bring more equitable economies.
Our planet has been suffering from serious environmental problems and their social and political consequences.
In these "thought-provoking visions of the future" ( The Wall Street Journal ), Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute explain how ocean cities can solve many of our environmental, technological, and civic problems, and introduce the visionaries and pioneers who are now making seasteading a reality
