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Joe Quirk

Autore di The Ultimate Rush

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Opere di Joe Quirk

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Nome canonico
Quirk, Joe
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Westfield, New Jersey, USA

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Decent introduction to the idea of Seasteading (offshore floating structures for long-term human occupation) from people involved in The Seasteading Institute, a non-profit which has been working on the idea for about a decade.

Describes a lot of the potential for Seasteads in the future (medical tourism, agriculture, energy), as well as some of the political innovations possible due to fundamentally mobile and reconfigurable communities.

Not a lot of interesting new content if you're already familiar with the idea; much more of an introduction for the public.… (altro)
 
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octal | 1 altra recensione | Jan 1, 2021 |
First of all, dial down the smugness - you have nothing to be smug about. All the exciting developments have very little inherently to do with seasteading. It's like describing the improvements in solar panels and claiming they vindicate seasteders. Secondly, all those successes come with huge caveats and uncertainties. This book is ridiculously optimistic and blindly one-sided. It might motivate people to investigate the subject but it sets them up for disappointment.
 
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Paul_S | 1 altra recensione | Dec 23, 2020 |
Ok, this one is really different. It is written through the inside of a roller balding messenger guy in San Francisco. Yes, generally, you would not want to be inside this head and it is rough but really different and although I'm not sure I'm going to rush out to get his second novel, this one was worth the read.
 
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susandennis | Jun 5, 2020 |
I read this piece in Brazil in the days before I was going to go hang gliding, it begins brilliantly, and but for some factual discrepancies touched upon briefly in an apologetica and some annoying funeral characters near the end (which the writer wrote in on the advice of someone clearly insane) it is a wonderful book. I hope to read more Joe Quirk in the years to come.
 
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WillWoods | Jul 22, 2010 |

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Statistiche

Opere
6
Utenti
221
Popolarità
#101,335
Voto
½ 3.7
Recensioni
5
ISBN
21
Lingue
4

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