Mason: Free Cities at Sea
“There are a lot of countries and cities that are worried about the sea level rise and are investing a lot of money into research and development for floating extensions of their cities. The Netherlands already does this. The technology to build floating cities is being developed regardless of Seasteading. I’m just saying, let’s take that technology and let’s use flags of convenience, and let’s run platforms as private cities.
I’m not trying to reinvent anything here. I’m just trying to bring together existing ideas and use them in a reasonable a legal and a practical manner to achieve freedom as quickly as possible.”
Today on the podcast I present to you the first episode recorded at Liberty in Our Lifetime 2024.
I had a number of conversations on my bucket list for the conference and one of those was speaking to somebody about Seasteading, something that I was fortunate enough to do on two separate occasions. One of those was with Joe Quirk, the President of the Seasteading Institute and the other was with today’s guest Mason, the brains behind Atlas Island, a project planning to create sovereign cities at sea.
Now, I feel that I should preface this show with a small plea to you all to forgive me for thinking out loud a fair bit in this episode. Those of you who follow the pod will know that my preferred style of investigation is very much to find out about things in real life from real people, something that I believe allows you the listener to join me as I work this stuff out in real-time. So, if you’re a hardened Seasteader then there may not be anything new for you here, but if, like me, you have a very specific set of beliefs about the viability of Free Cities in the ocean then I invite you to join me as I get me mind well and truly educated.
Mason is a great ambassador for both Seasteading and the Free Cities movement as a whole and I can guarantee you that this is the first conversation of many as this project evolves in the coming months and years.
Enjoy the conversation.