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Latest Episodes

How Seasteading Will Enrich the Poor
September 05, 2017

Michael Strong, humanitarian author and education entrepreneur, explains to Joe Quirk why he served on the original Seasteading Institute Board of Directors to accelerate the means by which people create abundance.

Lotta Moberg - The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones
July 21, 2017

I wouldn't understand the power of seasteading if I didn't understand the power of Special Economic Zones. What are those? Let's ask the expert. Lotta Moberg has written several academic papers on Special Economic Zones,

Podcast: Seasteading = Better Than Sustainable
March 17, 2017

My controversial interview with the Sustainable Communities Summit is now free. Host Alan James allowed me to talk at length about the entrepreneurs who plan to show the world how to think beyond sustainability – and beyond politics itself.

Podcast: The Day Oliver Porter Created a Privately Run City
July 23, 2016

Got a pad of paper? We need a government for our town. Quick! We’re Sandy Springs, we just gained independence, and we don’t have much time. A hundred thousand citizens are waiting. Go in your basement and write out a charter.

Podcast: The Day Oliver Porter Created a Privately Run City - Seasteading Today with Joe Quirk
July 23, 2016

Got a pad of paper? We need a government for our town. Quick! We’re Sandy Springs, we just gained independence, and we don’t have much time. A hundred thousand citizens are waiting. Go in your basement and write out a charter.

SeaZones Compared to Nation States? Tom W. Bell Explains
February 15, 2016

One of our most staunch seastead legal innovators, author and lawyer Tom W. Bell, explains why he believes the future of legal innovation is in free cities and seasteads. 

Podcast: SeaZones Compared to Nation States? Tom W. Bell Explains - Seasteading Today with Joe Quirk
February 15, 2016

Why should seastead law operate better than land-based law? What is the nature of consent? What’s the difference between a Special Economic Zone and a SeaZone? How can legal systems be open-source like Linux?

Podcast: Robert Ballard & 3D-Printed FLIPsteads - Seasteading Today with Joe Quirk
January 29, 2016

Why haven’t seasteads been built yet? Robert Ballard, famous oceanographer who discovered the RMS Titanic, reminds us every time we talk to him that the technology for stability on the high seas is the RV FLIP,

Podcast: Robert Ballard & 3D-Printed FLIPsteads
January 29, 2016

Why haven’t seasteads been built yet? Robert Ballard, famous oceanographer who discovered the RMS Titanic, reminds us every time we talk to him that the technology for stability on the high seas is the RV FLIP,

Podcast: Free Cities, Former Navy Officer Interviews Seasteader - Seasteading Today with Joe Quirk
January 11, 2016

How does a Naval Officer become an advocate of voluntary market solutions? This Free Cities Podcast starts with Anthony Caprio – a former Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy – interviewing Joe Quirk, then the roles switch and Joe interviews him.