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

People can leave seasteads, or people can choose them, and people can create new seasteads if they want. This fluidity will engage an evolutionary market process that'll allow a diversity of societies to emerge that will in principle be superior, simply because people chose them. Governments on land don't allow this fluid dynamic of choice.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

You can't create the future unless you imagine it.

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

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.

Once you provide people with a platform to start their own country, every conceivable type of innovator reaches out to you with their own idea.

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