Seastead.org

Both the site and book are currently being revised and updated. A new site will be launching soon with a new look, forums, and lots more. (5/23/08)

Mark Twain, 1800's: "Buy land. They've stopped making it"

Seasteaders, 2003: "Memo: Production Resuming"

This is the home of the Seasteading Project, which aims to build sovereign, self-sufficient floating platforms, thus creating new territory on the oceans. Our fundamental principle is to approach this ambitious vision in a realistic manner. This includes using conventional technologies whenever possible, coming up with profitable business models, and progressing by bootstrapping through a reasonable series of steps. There will be lots more here later as the project gets underway.

• Basic Introduction to the seasteading movement and the nonprofit foundation we are setting up. (Also see this older introduction: Seasteading - What's That?).
• The Seasteading Book Drafts:
  • Seasteading Book Draft Alpha (~100 pages), includes old reader comments, but you can no longer add new ones.
  • Seasteading Book Draft Beta, coming in Summer 2008, has been put on hold for now, while we work on setting up a nonprofit and redesigning the website.
• Frequently Asked Questions about Seasteading.
• Dynamic Geography: Blueprint for Efficient Government is the theoretical basis for our belief that floating cities will make government more efficient, responsive, and innovative.
• Seasteading Talks (including audio and video!). Contains information like slides, handouts, text, audio, and video from the 4 seastead talks we've given thus far.
• We are experimenting with using a "seasteading" tag on delicious. View all items tagged seasteading here, and popular ones here. Or see our old link collection.
• Locally hosted resources, such as Jim Lee's Floating Utopias paper.
• Read News and Updates on the project as a LiveJournal or an RSS feed, or subscribe to our low-traffic list for major announcements:

  Subscribe to Seasteading Announcements

  Email:

• Read about Ephemerisle, a proposed Burning Man-like festival to promote seasteading.