POSSIBILIA
Researching what could be. Building what will.
Independent research · Strategic foresight · Experimental development
What is changing, and what does it make possible?
Most work starts from a problem that already exists. We start earlier: from what is changing, and from the possibilities it opens before they become obvious.
We investigate emerging possibilities, explore connections across disciplines and technologies, and develop new concepts and architectures that challenge how we understand, organize, and interact with the world.
A nexial way of thinking
In 1950, science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt imagined a new discipline called Nexialism: the systematic joining of knowledge from one field with the knowledge of others. In his story, each specialist understood part of the problem. Only the Nexialist could see how the parts connected.
Most answers today still come from inside a single field. That is why so many of them look alike.
We connect knowledge, perspectives and developments that are usually explored in isolation. That is where we find the connections others miss, and why our projects, answers and solutions don’t look like anyone else’s.
The defining questions of the coming decades will not respect the borders between disciplines. Neither do we.
We move between what is emerging, what is conceivable, and what can already be built.
Research
We gather knowledge across every field a question touches, not only the obvious ones. The wider the knowledge, the wider the view, and the better the answer.
Foresight
We connect what we find. Patterns that stay invisible inside one discipline become visible across many, and show where things could lead.
Build
We turn those connections into experiments, concepts and architectures.
What we are building
ADE
The computer that comes next.
Today’s computers were built to process. What comes after them must also perceive, remember and evolve. ADE is our research architecture for that next computer.
Read the research →3 Sphere
A new way to organize information.
Information is connected. Why do we keep treating it as separate? 3 Sphere is designed to organize information by its relationships, its context and how it changes over time.
Read the research →HCY
A new way to work with the computer.
The more a computer can do, the more the person becomes the bottleneck. We are preparing the way to work with it.
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