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Challenges: Trivial, Grand, and Whitehead

One of the problems I’ve been thinking the hardest about is how to catalyze and incentivize fresh efforts around protocol research problems and ideas, both old and new.

Too often, emerging fields witness a rush of what we might call repac...

5 days ago
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Maintaining Everything That Matters

Two new Special Interest Groups are spinning up in our Protocol Institute Discord. SIGPSY, the Special Interest Group in Psychohistory, will meet every other Thursday at 1600 UTC, starting tomorrow, June 4, and the Distributed Robotics Grou...

11 days ago
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2026 Protocol Symposium: New Nature

We are excited to announce the 2026 Protocol Symposium, the third edition of our flagship research and education event, devoted to the nascent discipline of protocol studies and the broader scene emerging around it.

The theme for the 2026...

13 days ago
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Irrigation by Protocol: When Vineyards Delegate Decisions to Networks

Applications to Protocols for the Long Now, our participatory cross-disciplinary labs organised in collaboration with the Long Now Foundation, are closing on June 5. Apply now at Long Now Labs.


There’s an old Eastern European saying...

15 days ago
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The Overloaded Train

Fu Kenan was slowly becoming invisible.

He had first noticed this process on the second morning of the westbound run, somewhere between the Almaty gauge-change and the long empty curve where the line dropped down off the Kazakh uplands, an...

23 days ago
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  • Protocolized

    Protocolized is a new digital magazine that publishes sci-fi, articles, and thought-provoking essays about the world's (mostly) invisible infrastructure.

  • Matthew McDowell-Sweet

    in motion - building subset.network | hq: msweet.net

  • Venkatesh Rao

    Delving. Writing the Contraptions newsletter.

  • Sachin

    Infrastructure ethnography

  • Cameron Russell Armstrong

    my love of man, machine, and mud abounds

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  • Timber Stinson-Schroff

    intellectual knuckledragger

  • Denise Hearn

    Denise is Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Long Now Foundation. She is also co-author of The Myth of Capitalism and The Big Fix, and her research, writing, and work can be found at: www.denisehearn.com

  • Marie-Hélène Lebeault - Author

    Author of The Evers Series, the Blood Magick Trilogy, Defenders of the Realm, Legends Reborn, as well as a series of the Fairy Grandmother picture books, Marie-Hélène enjoys traveling, cycling, and going to the beach.

  • Amita

    exploring how humans design, interact with, and imagine complex systems - from products to possible futures. all opinions my own.

  • Patrick Nast

    better not to begin. once begun,

  • Randy Lubin

    Startups & Game Design: http://leveragedplay.com (foresight games) – http://diegeticgames.com (consumer games) – http://storysynth.org (online games platform)

  • Kelly Roegies

    Exploring how open protocols can advance digital sovereignty, and how they fit into EU policy frameworks. EU policy communications strategist, Fellow at the European Decentralisation Institute, Board Advisor at Furt’her.

  • Nishit

    going for walks on the interweb

  • Jason Collins

    Jason Collins is a freelance writer and editor with a background in magazine writing. His work spans science fiction, essays, blogs, and features, bringing curiosity, sharp editing, and a storyteller's mind to every piece.

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