Tezos

Commercial, a manifesto

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Description

Modern Prompts on Synthetic Futures is a collection that pays homage to the history of computing, aiming to shed light on the people who envisioned machines, the hands that built them, and the minds that programmed them. The images are generated from earlier prompts for miniatures, representing an evolution of the writings from this collection. Commercial is a generative video that explores both the opportunities and the challenges of decentralized systems like Web3. Commercial manifesto. In 1833, a teenage girl met a machine and called it a friend. It wasn’t magic, just engineering ahead of its time. That relationship was a glimpse of what was to come: machines not as slaves, but as companions. Not as tools, but as mirrors. The internet promised freedom, but they sold it to the highest bidder. Your clicks are their currency, your identity their product. Every scroll feeds a machine designed not to connect you, but to trap you. Platforms aren’t public squares; they’re walled gardens where you are the harvest. Web3 claims to be different, but history rhymes: new words, same hierarchies. Decentralization for those who can afford it. Autonomy for those with resources. The rest of us are still playing a game we didn’t design. But the game can be hacked. What if we stopped building for the market and started building for ourselves? Networks not to hoard, but to share. Machines that don’t surveil, but create with us. Code that doesn’t control, but connects. We don’t need another digital empire. We need a mycelium: a network of small, distributed, resilient nodes. Where power doesn’t rise, but flows. Where stories, cultures, and ideas aren’t commodities but gifts in motion. We are not users. We are not products. We are co-creators. The future isn’t in grand promises of decentralization but in small alliances that break the chains. In networks that grow like roots, not towers. In relationships built not on exploitation, but on mutual care. The internet is no longer a tool. It’s a living space. It’s in our hands to decide whether we let it die in the grip of the same old powers or use it for something better. Because it’s not about technology—it’s about who controls it. And we can take it back. _______________________________________________________________- html, js, mp4, mp3, tff, gif 21.5mb 2024

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