Anne McCrossan

Social signals and code were important in the transition of humans into factory life. What might be the equivalent for our digital ones?

In making sense of confusing times, we can be greatly informed by the metaphysical poetry and experiences of our ancestors.

With code, we have an altered orbit. It is asking us to think about how we revolve around it in ways that are fit for today’s age.

The characteristics of the Digital Era are very different from those of Machiavelli’s. This may lead to changes in how we think about power.

Perspective and expression enabled deeper enquiry and exploration in the Renaissance. As digital humans, we still need it today.

Put aside features and plugins. At its core, social media is simply a way of relaying information, a practice nearly as old as the hills.

The digital timeline’s now a universal means of understanding like the meter or the kilo, it’s of immense significance, and we all have one.

As we become conjoined and coded we can learn a great deal about our greatest potential through connection and from the reflections outside.

If you’re reading this, you’re a witness to the first stages of connected life, the time when we first emerge as a wired-up species.

One of the building blocks of digital civilisation that we can learn from the ancients, is about making a better state through inventory.

The rational and predictable; the strange and unexplained. These opposable forces have shaped human destiny for millennia using machinery.

The processes of big data, quantified organisation and state formation haven’t changed that much from the days of our early ancestors.

Exploring digital opportunity, the enormous asset of data we have and the new commits we can make and write into existence with good code.

Table of Contents for Emergent Code Chronicles

Emergent code is written as a wake-up call, a wonderland and also a handbook. It’s a way of making sense of what might our future be as digital humans.