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some notes from Matt Webb and a series of thought experiments around orthogonal technologies…

What we need are visions of the future of technology that are values-driven, but “we don’t need just design fictions. We need business model fictions, engineering feasibility study fictions, interop protocol specification fictions, investment return fictions.” This post is a first stab at defining a lab to invent and publish these worked examples. Do I believe this lab will happen? Well obviously it’s something I would love to do but, no, not necessarily. In the spirit of Gedankenexperiment, the exercise itself is informative. I’m not wedded to the name “Orthogonal Technology Lab” but I’ve chosen it as a placeholder from my post about orthogonal innovation, “a series of quite ordinary steps but simply in a different direction” - which can lead to a place very, very different from contemporary tech.

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