News: Patri Friedman

An encouraging essay for activists of every stripe, from mainstream to fringe. Walking the path from the Ivory Tower of thought to the mud-hole of action isn't easy and is open to many missteps. Patri Friedman outlines the whys of turning thought into action and provides examples of the hows.

Patri Friedman, executive director of the Seasteading Institute, previously worked in Google's Mountain View headquarters as a

Last Friday, Milton Friedman's grandson Patri Friedman and his fledgling Seasteading Institute had their first ever conference. Equipped with half a million dollars from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, the Institute wants to eventually build a fixed, independent structure off the coast of San Francisco called Ephemerisle.

THE FUTURIST magazine talks to Dennis Chamberland of the League of New Worlds, super-projects futurist McKinely Conway, author Danny Quintana, and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute about the practical obstacles to ocean habitation and the race to make life at sea a twenty-first century reality.

PayPay cofounder Peter Thiel has pledged half a million dollars to the Seasteading Institute, an audacious effort to create self-sufficient colonies in the open ocean. Ars talked to executive director Patri Friedman.

Seasteading Institute has been established in order to establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems. It will continue and expand on the work of Patri Friedman and Wayne Gramlich, authors of "Seasteading: A Practical Guide to Homesteading the High Seas".