Today,  Seb Paquet shared a very interesting article where Venkatesh Rao defines four broad narratives that inspire social design in the face of uncertainty. Definitely, this project is positioned in the Hydra narrative! http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012...

The present project aims to channel the restlessness that is palpable all around...

Venkat writes:

"What is new is the idea that we might be on the brink of a successful theory of social engineering.

The great hope is that we might somehow be able to put together ideas about anti-fragility, immortal cities and resilience to solve the problems that defeated the similarly-inspired authoritarian high-modernist (a term due to Scott) social engineers of a century ago."

This is what we have the ambition to dive into...