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

Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.

If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads won't attract them without offering them better options.

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.

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.

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