Seasteading Conference & Ephemerisle

Interested in how to Let A Thousand Nations Bloom?  Come to the Second Annual Seasteading Conference in San Francisco, CA, Sep. 28th – 30th!

Speakers of particular interest to our readers include:

• Peter Thiel: Back To The Future
• Paul Romer: Charter Cities
• Michael Strong: Free Zones (our most popular post so far on ATN has been his Free Zones as an additional option for the Cambrian Explosion in Government)
• David Friedman: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
• Erwin Strauss, author of How To Start Your Own Country
• A roundtable between Paul Romer, Michael Strong, and I on the relative merits and differences between Seasteading, Charter Cities, and Free Zones for increasing competition in government.

See the conference webpage for more speakers and information.

If you’re interested in immediate action as well as talk about the future, consider attending our first ever Ephemerisle festival of politics, community, and art.  Ephemerisle will be held Octover 2-4, 2009, on the water in the Sacramento River Delta region east of the SF Bay Area.  TSI will provide a central platform, and residents will bring boats, inflatable islands, and crazy home-built structures.

Ephemerisle is one of the parallel legs in our seasteading strategy – letting one Temporary Autonomous Zone bloom in a river is a step on the way towards more permanence and autonomy.

Please help spread the word for these awesome events by linking to this post on your blogs, forums, facebooks, twitters, etc.  And don’t hesitate to personally invite anyone you think would enjoy and add to the experience!