Joe Quirk

President of The Seasteading Institute


Joe Quirk is President of The Seasteading Institute, founded in 2008 to enable seasteading communities (floating cities) which will allow the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for how to live together. Quirk is a science writer, novelist, and memoir ghostwriter, with a national bestseller in each category. He is co-author with Patri Friedman of Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore The Environment, Enrich The Poor, Cure The Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians, an Amazon bestseller in the category of marine engineering.