How does one prospect the future?
Unlike our ancestors, who threw spears at mammoths using the eye-ear-arm-hand loop, programmers act on the world through feedback structures like REPL (read-eval-print loop)More and more things that humans do will involve feedback structures like the REPL loop that interface with entire armies of bots and machines spanning the datacenter-to-Internet-of-things gap at planet scale.
Instead, it’s a higher-dimensional version of our current one-dimensional individual-to-collective notion of social possibilities. It includes ways of being for which we have no words.