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⚠️ This note outlines the concept for a distributed, location-agnostic lab. The purpose is a source-of-truth to align on the foundational elements.

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Bringing our experience from web3, AI, product design, complex systems, organizational development, co-living, and social science, our lab will focus on producing evidence-based digital solutions for global economic coordination, social cohesion, and proximity to nature.

Today’s socio-technical infrastructure is de-humanising

Today’s socio-technical innovation—digital platforms (social media networks, communication apps, AI companions etc.) built on a neoliberal economic substrate—optimizes for individualism, speed, and geopolitical competition rather than human flourishing.

• The digital technology we rely on erodes authentic connection.
• Companies, markets, and monetary systems encourage exploitation and extraction over regeneration and ecological sustainability.
• Traditional work environments make it difficult to avoid burnout and/or find meaningful work.
• We struggle to find accessible physical spaces that do not compromise our personal health and the local environment.
• Keeping track of personal and organizational knowledge is increasingly difficult with the existing suite of knowledge management software.
• Our personal data is often mismanaged and used without our consent.

Processes, tools, and talent to research alternatives

Our response is a distributed lab, designed to make use of physical spaces across the world as temporary containers for innovation of alternative systems.

Our experience from various industries has shown that it’s possible to use cutting edge tools, technologies and talent to revolutionise biology and physical health, neuroscience and mental health, economic development, governance and work. Therefore, we propose the following hypotheses:

• Online-native collaboration and communication tools allow us to work together anytime, from anywhere.
• Independent educational institutions have applied scientific methods to research social technologies and digital products with rigor. We can use their methods to produce clear evidence for social impact over vague market assumptions.
• LLMs are advanced enough to keep a record of ongoing work and minimise the effort of epistemic maintenance. This allows us to compensate knowledge creators and increase trust in the sources.
• Various cutting-edge technologies are increasingly democratised and open sourced. This means that we can prototype even faster, with greater diversity and creative potential.
• Blockchain infrastructure increases transparency over funding flows. This increases trust among funding parties and speeds up direct funding towards impactful experiments.
• Agile, Scrum, and similar processes produce high quality products and iterative innovation. They can be used to design organizations that are inclusive, meaningful, and adaptable to complex environments.
• Privacy-preserving data technologies (p2p encryption, zk proofs) reduce the cost of data sovereignty. This allows us to create spaces where individuals feel safe being honest with each other.