Internet - as we understand it today - consists of a quantity of websites which are separated in space. Like moving between countries you can move from one website to another and find another world with its own design, content, and rules. However borders between different websites are diffusing due to OpenStack protocols spreading (and other DataPortability initiatives spreading). Soon internet will become seamless world thanks to “widgets” and “gadgets”. But one border is still quite strong.

This border is a monitor screen which divides our life on “real” and “internets”. A lot of people live a big part of their lives in the Web. They communicate, share their most important things over the Web, and even find such things there (for instance, due to “Facebook” or “Twitter”).

Let’s imagine future without this border. Information about people and things surrounds them at the very same place where people and things are, it covers them and is available at any time. Welcome to the future of ubiquitous computing and omnipresent information.

Welcom to the kingdom of Digital Ether.

In the past the ‘future’ of people, and of the world around them were pretty much certain. Tomorrow was not much different from today. Our grandparents and even our parents planned ‘bright futures’ for us, their kids… while being fully confident that these futures will be just about the same as today, may be a bit better.

We now understand that “the future is not what it used to be”. Future is always different than what we think, and always different in different way. But we also understand that it does not fell on heads from the sky. We make the future. Or the futures, rather. We craft them, weave, design — today.

Wiki-future is a project where we create our futures together, in an ongoing collaboration with each other. Together we try to recognize the weak signals of the coming times, make sense of the new manifestations, and get insights into possible realities of the future.

But we also try to bring these elements of the future into the world of today. We try to fertilise our current thinking, to plant these ’seeds of the future’ into our today’s thoughts and help them grow.

Soon you will see here the first artifacts from the future — objects, concepts and ideas, somewhat familiar to you already, and somewhat amanzingly different and unexpected. They are all aimed at helping us build our bridges into the future.

Want to join, to make and to become a part of the future? You are welcome!

Decide for yourself if you want to just to touch the future for a second, or invest a lot of your energy and efforts (but then also gain a lot in return).

Please register and we will send you an invitation to join our games with the wiki-futures!