A new section has appeared on the site: SEQ — a place for multi-episode content, that is, series of essays and stories that refuse to fit inside a single text.
The first series is “I Imagine That…”, which I am writing together with Sebastian. We let our imaginations run free, presenting practical applications of the Orbiplex swarm: its connectors to the world, called Sensorium, and Memarium — memory that does not vanish.
Each episode is a self-contained story. We start from situations familiar to almost everyone: neighbourhood gossip, an editorial team preparing a piece, a product review, a company building software — and then we ask what the same event would look like in a world where we are accompanied by a distributed infrastructure of human agency, rather than yet another platform that locks us into a single vendor.
Four episodes have been published so far:
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“The Swarm Gossips” — about how individual cases of indigestion become a systemic signal when there is space to tell one’s story.
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“The Magazine Publishes Itself” — about an editorial team that stops being a pipeline and begins to work like a swarm of specialized nodes with its own memory and idiolect.
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“The Swarm Has Opinions” — about the idea that an opinion belongs to the person who uttered it, not to the owner of the platform.
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“Software Writes Itself” — about a corporation that, instead of scaling headcount, grows a swarm of cooperating competences, much like a banyan tree.
The series will keep growing as new topics appear, because there are at least as many applications of the swarm as there are situations in which people would like to have at their side a patient, local, and sovereign intelligence.