Autonomous Forest is a living work of art and a new techno-legal entity that reimagines ecological regeneration
An ecological perspective to master the complexities of the digital economy
Economic and social interactions are shifting to digital platforms which grow into vast ecosystems where user engagement creates value for members while ecosystem orchestrators harvest massive revenue. The digital ecosystem business model succeeds by adeptly navigating fast-changing environments, including new technologies and volatile demands, through dynamic innovation in a decentralized decision-making setting. This renders digital platform ecosystems complex adaptive systems. Recognizing that natural ecosystems are a prime example of complex adaptive systems, we propose a systematic hierarchical framework for describing and understanding digital ecosystems, rooted in ecology and evolution. Our framework compares digital ecosystems hosted by societies to natural ecosystems embedded in biomes, products to species, and technologies and elements of business strategy to the genetic makeup of a species. As digital platforms face heightened scrutiny about their socio-economic power and societal value, our approach contributes to the development of deeper understanding and sustainable governance of the digital economy.
Infrastructure as Code is Artisanal Automation
“Artisanal” refers to something made in a traditional way by hand by a skilled craftsman, requiring both time and expertise.
Creating A Shared Vision For the Restoration Of The Ericht Catchment - Catchment Restoration Initiative
Our project’s ‘Pioneer’ status means that we are being offered some fantastic opportunities to pilot new ways of working to restore nature at landscape scale. One of those is the opportunity to work with ETH Zurich on trialing a new tool for our next project milestone which is the development of the restoration vision – […]
AI Agents Landscape & Ecosystem (January 2026): Complete Interactive Map
Explore the comprehensive AI agents landscape map / ecosystem for January 2026. Compare AI Agents across categories, pricing, and capabilities. Updated daily with new autonomous agents, AI assistants, and emerging solutions.
Nate on Twitter / X
OSTP just released 'Science: A New Golden Age' — 72 pages modeled on Vannevar Bush's 1945 report. I read the whole thing. It's remarkably good.The sharpest insight is on page 60. AI could do to science what fire suppression did to forests: make each individual tree safer while…— Nate (@NateWBradford) July 21, 2026
Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters
Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters
I Wanted to Create “The Most Human Gathering”—and Created a Monster
What my failed attempt at curation says about the next “intelligence explosion” “The word for world is forest“ – Ursula K. Le Guin With everyone now a coder, you’d think this would be a good time for curators like me.
Ecosystem Action Research
A pilot program to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT Protocol ecosystem
TreeKIT: Measuring, Mapping, and Collaboratively Managing Urban Forests
As cities across the United States expand their stock of street trees to address a range of environmental sustainability goals, municipal foresters are increasingly turning to volunteers to supplement their tree care efforts. TreeKIT is a small non-profit organization that helps city dwellers collaboratively measure, map, and manage urban forests. Using TreeKIT’s mapping methods, volunteers are able to create spatially accurate inventories of street trees. In the process, volunteers learn to identify street trees and develop an effective appreciation for their local urban forest. The following article describes the TreeKIT mapping methods and ongoing efforts to scale these techniques for large, synchronous street tree census initiatives.
Future Art Ecosystems – Building protocols for 21st-century cultural infrastructure
Future Art Ecosystems is a project for building 21st century cultural infrastructure to support art and advanced technologies for the public good.
The Ecosystem
Create collective knowledge by crowdsourcing and adapting governance innovations.
Flora is building an AI-powered ‘infinite canvas’ for creative professionals | TechCrunch
With just a few words, AI models can be prompted to create a story, an image, or even a short film. But according to Weber Wong, these models are all
Protect our Living Legends - Woodland Trust
Many of our oldest and most special trees are not legally protected. Urge Government to change the law and prevent further tragedy.
On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving
Every platform I left, I left for the same pattern: enclosure by othering — systems that define what is shameful, create targets, and point an aggressive majority at them. Substack's AI-detection turn is the latest, and it is Dark Forestry in action. The escape is spatial: go where the platforms ar…
Against the dark forest
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.
