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Joe Quirk is an American author originally from Westfield, New Jersey. His latest book is Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians. Quirk is also a spokesperson for the non-profit Seasteading Institute.

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I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.

Back, Children, Government, Sustainable, Thinking, World

Americans are very mobile and move around and choose the communities they want. On the ocean people would be even more mobile and empowered to link up with people they enjoyed, and detach and move away from people they did not. Increasing choice is a way to foster fulfillment in people's lives. I choose my friends and I'd prefer to choose my neighbors too.

Mobile, Moving, Neighbors, Ocean, People, Way

Seasteaders bring a Silicon Valley sensibility to the problem of governments not innovating sufficiently. Innovators are held back and stymied by existing regulations, and we want to give them 21st century regulations on start-up governments.

Century, Giving, Government, Problem, Sensibility, Valleys

I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our coasts, and another book about evolution. Seasteading captivated me because it incorporates both evolution and environmental restoration.

Book, Environmental, Mammals, Marine, Novelist

Seasteading could be the means by which humanity will live sustainably.

Humanity, Live, Mean, Seasteading, Sustainably

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

Civilization, Discover, Half, Nearly, Seavilization, Surface

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

Age, Map, Maps, Polynesia, World

Seasteads are man-made islands that float permanently on the ocean with any measure of a political autonomy. They would essentially be startup societies where people could form whatever kind of community they wanted.

Ocean, People, Community, Float, Measure

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

Becoming, Floating, Islands, Sea, Transition

Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in life itself. What stunned me about seasteading is that it's a technology for variation and selection in governance itself. The reason some two hundred nation-states do a poor job of governing seven billion people is that they don't vary, and people don't select.

Among, Evolution, People, Technology, Vary

Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a Google engineer and theorist of political economy who realized that if society floated, it would completely change the nature of governance itself. If seasteads are modular and can be moved about, allowing people to choose new societies, we'd create a market of governance providers, competing to attract residents.

Country, Frontier, Modular, People, Political, Theorist

Thinking about seasteading requires us to free ourselves of these broad political categories we're stuck with on land. People can make whatever community system they want on a seastead. What emerges will totally defy the broad categories we debate about now.

Community, Make, People, Requires, Thinking, Totally

The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick of their violent governments fled to the water, where they built civilization on stilts. That startup society - a free city-state on the water - became so successful it dominated the Mediterranean for a thousand years.

Beautiful, Free, People, Successful, Venice, Years