Seasteads - Opportunities and Challenges for Small New Societies

Seasteads - artificial settlements on the open sea - represent a near-future chance for multiple societal restarts.Where nation states suffer from ineffectiveness and inefficiency, both politically and economically, and cannot be changed due to path-dependency and rigidity, the open sea is a clean slate. Here, we can test new ways of doing things differently.This book discusses the opportunities and challenges of seasteads. Its focus is on socio-philosophical, political, economic, and legal aspects of founding new small societies of pro-active and productive individuals and groups. An explorative exercise, this book presents paradigmatic ideas and suggestions for partial aspects of seasteads.

Summary

Seasteads – artificial settlements on the open sea – represent a near-future chance for multiple societal restarts.
Where nation states suffer from ineffectiveness and inefficiency, both politically and economically, and cannot be changed due to path-dependency and rigidity, the open sea is a clean slate. Here, we can test new ways of doing things differently.

This book discusses the opportunities and challenges of seasteads. Its focus is on socio-philosophical, political, economic, and legal aspects of founding new small societies of pro-active and productive individuals and groups. An explorative exercise, this book presents paradigmatic ideas and suggestions for partial aspects of seasteads.

Product details

• Assisted by: Victor Tiberius (Editor)
• Publisher: Vdf Hochschulverlag AG
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2017
• EAN: 9783728138217
• ISBN: 978-3-7281-3821-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 240 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Illustrations: s/w, Tab. + Abb.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Businesskommunikation und -präsentation, optimieren, Globalisation, Artificial settlements, Mobile Technology, Learning Communities, floating cities