Now that you can
do anything* with technology,
what will you do?
Let’s dream better.
Exploring agency �in the age of automation�and wise decision-making�with magical technologies,�from human to planet scale…
🖖🏼 Meet Your Mycopunk Facilitator
🔮 Exploring Human-Technology Coevolution For 20 Years
🦾 What Is Technology & Why Do We Use It?
"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
– Herbert Simon, 1971
“We are as gods, and we have to
get good at it.”�– Stewart Brand, 2007
Or, if you insist on how: �How do we choose wisely
given that our minds are models
of the stable features of environments
and "The Street finds its own uses for things"
and it’s “cognition all the way down”�and states, markets, and societies think, too?
These miraculous machines!�Do we shape them�Or do they shape us?�Or reshape us from our decent, far designs?
But we are learning.�We are learning to build for the future�From the ground up.�
— Robert Flaherty, 1948
🤔 Restoring WHAT & WHY To Our HOW-Obsessed Society
☸️ Making Steering Wheels For The Great Acceleration
Kay & Altman’s HARC only lasted one year.
💡 Example Application:
How do we need to reimagine IP for a planet-scale society thoroughly dependent on collective intelligence
infrastructure?
➝ Where do ideas “come from”? �
➝ Can we trace their life cycles and compensate appropriately? �
➝ How does network epistemology inform restorative justice?
➝ …without creating horrible new externalities?
⚛️ The Six Dimensions:
🤝 Informed Consent
🕹️ Addiction/Gaming
👁️ Accountability & Oversight
🏛️ Multiscale Cognition/Regulation
🪄 “Spellcasting”
🤰🏼 Technology &/As Parenting
Read more about each here.
🐝 Making Value Visible & Wisdom Legible
🕸️ Process/Product: A Protocol For Collective Intelligence
💬 “Conversations as a Service” (CaaS)
1:1 — Preliminary Context/Rapport Calls ➝
1:1 — Video Podcast Recordings ➝
2:2:Many — Recorded Live Salons ➝
Many:Many — Threaded Forum Discussion ➝
Working Groups & Advisory Partnerships
Discussions lead to team discovery and projects.
Artifacts become raw materials for other artifacts:�follow-up books, films, generative media projects, and other remixes and culture hacking, such as…
🔮 Precedent: AskFutureFossils.com
😎 Modeling The Formation Of “Scenius On Speed Dial”
Ultimately, the product is:
Not just a wisdom repo
or an aligned community
but sensemaking as live art
that models a protocol
for compressing
the wisdom of your crowd
into homegrown, bespoke, context-rich and shareable audience-adapted encodings:
Making tacit knowledge
visible and operational
in the places where it matters.
�A decolonial practice
for cultivating integrated intelligence as fruitful play.
🪄 Let’s Launch A Wizard School for The Age of AI!
📯 Inviting all forms of collaboration:
• Nominate guests, co-hosts, or collaborators
• Make a tax-deductible donation
• Help me link up with elders & influencers
• Join the public forum & meet wise innovators
• Suggest grants/Web3 public goods programs
• Hire me for consulting or advisory work