Seasteading
How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians

Seasteading is an interesting idea. Alas, Quirk's approach is not quirky enough to do justice to the unusual advantages of seasteading. The book's style is too much like a newspaper. Rather than focus on the main advantages of seasteading, it focuses on the concerns of the average person, and on how......more

Love this...brilliant ideas, witty writing, everything about the future that we need to consider! Quirk is amazing: read this book!......more

Having been vaguely familiar with the idea of seasteads (city-states built on platforms in the ocean) since the 1990s, I was a long time skeptic before reading this book. After having read it, I have a whole new outlook on the possibilities of seasteading and its ultimate viability. It may sound fant......more

This is a better book than I expected but, oddly, much of it is has only a limited relation to seasteading, as if there weren’t enough to say about a topic that is fascinating in and of itself. I found some of the other topics equally interesting, such as seaweed/algae and fish farming in the ocean......more

Three and a half stars. This book starts off with a plethora of "Club of Rome" type blather; this time with an end date of 2050. It begins to redeem itself somewhat by offering an abundance of solutions all based on and around seasteading. Through a series of interviews and ambitious visualizations......more