2.0 Web porous and digitally umbilical

As we look ahead at the code that ends up governing the humankind of our futures, our digital make-up will create ‘real time’ changes in our genetic systems.

We need to defend our sense of human agency by thinking about the umbilical connection we now have with code, asking questions about it with the curiosity of children and making decisions about it collectively with the wisdom of elders. It may one of the most important acts of agency we undertake.

Boundaries between us and the digital, code-driven intimate relationships we now have with our devices now, suddenly, matter. They literally matter. They are shaping who we are and what to connect to. They are becoming a part of us.

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.

How our relationship with code is changing who we are.