Technology in service of the numinous and creative agency.

How can technology make the world feel richer, stranger, more worthy of attention?

Hidden structures. Scale. Nature, mathematics, music.

How can technology help people develop and follow their own questions?

Tools for observation, playable systems, unexpected connections.

How can technology help people build understanding that becomes their own?

Simulations, learning by making, connecting abstractions to experience.

How can technology expand people’s ability to imagine, choose, and make?

Creative tools, new media, developing taste through making and revising.

What cognitive ecologies produce useful intelligence, creativity, discovery, agency — and which produce pathological attractors?

Intelligence may be an organizational property of systems that create, preserve, transform and respond to traces.