ExperiVerse · Planned
The Ultimate Other
A way for society to protect itself from bad actors, whoever they turn out to be, without handing anyone the keys.
Why this work exists
Where I’m coming from
I’ve lived through a rough dose of this world’s social illusions. Trauma is real, and its consequences are real too.
How wounds divide us
The same wounds split us into in-groups and out-groups: the sexes, race, religion, culture, sexuality, politics, rural and urban, poor and affluent. Where they overlap, the divide cuts deepest. A rivalry like decades of state sports teams can be fun, but most of these divides exist only because we stopped talking.
Justice without endless harm
Standing on the right side of the arc of justice is not a license to wound. Call-outs echo back and forth in cycles of harm until enough conscious people on both sides decide to end them.
What others carry
Generational harm can trap people in holes they can’t climb out of. Intersectionality speaks to more of us than we realize, yet media teaches people with the same wounds to see each other as the enemy, while the real powers working against all of us stay out of view.
The surveillance age
Flock cameras, total digital tracking, and psychographic profiles sold to corporations and advertisers are used to stir our emotions and fuel hollow, hostile dialogue, the opposite of fellowship.
The response
ExperiVerse is a work of futurism: anonymous-first, zero-identity, spatially aware technology to help us find each other again, and to do the deep inner work that healing takes.
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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What to expect
The Ultimate You is about one person. The Ultimate Other is about everyone else: the people who do not understand you, the institutions that watch you, and the threats nobody has met yet. It is being designed around four ideas.
01
Spatial awareness
Systems that understand where people, things and events are, so safety can be local, immediate and in your control.
02
Peer-to-peer and federated
Blockchain and federation, so no single company, government or server is the place everything has to be trusted.
03
Zero-identity-proof voting
Voting and decisions that prove a person counted once, without revealing who they are.
04
Built for every kind of bad actor
Personal enemies, people who simply do not understand you, governments, institutions and nations, and, if it ever comes to that, hostile machine or non-human intelligence paired with quantum computing.
Four ways to take it in
Planned
Slide deck
The whole idea as a presentation you can click through at your own pace.
Public
Articles with video
Long-form posts, each opening with a short video. Read or watch; free for everyone.
Planned
Web guide
The full story as one long, readable page you can scroll, search and bookmark.
Planned
Ebook
The full-length book, in chapters, in your free library.