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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.