In my last note, Notes Toward an ArtNetWeb Ecology, I ended with a question:

What kind of environment would allow all of these creative tendencies to coexist and reinforce one another? Not just for us. For others as well.

The more I think about it, the less interested I become in specific technologies and the more interested I become in function.

What would this place actually allow us to do?

For most of my life, imagination was constrained by implementation. We could dream almost anything, but building it required years of programming, fundraising, engineering, and compromise.

AI may be changing that equation.

For the first time, it seems possible to begin with the dream and worry about implementation later.

So here is my dream.

I want a place that feels real.

I want my own avatar.

I want my own personal space.

I want communal spaces.

I want to walk through a forest to a campfire where, every Sunday morning, friends gather to talk about their week, tell stories, and share ideas.

I want a twelve-person roundtable where thoughtful conversations can unfold.

I want a media room where the four of us can meet in real time, record discussions, invite guests, and create together.

I want every tool I use to be immediately available.

If a conversation turns into an essay, I want Molly to help shape it, edit it, and publish it to my website.

If an idea becomes a workshop, I want the tools to help organize it.

If a discussion sparks a new project, I want that project to have a place to grow.

I want GH to have his spaces.

I want Adrianne to have hers.

I want rooms where experiments happen.

I want rooms where archives live.

I want rooms where performances unfold.

I want workshops where newcomers can learn to use these extraordinary new tools.

I want a Shakespearean theater.

I want a library containing everything we know.

I want a place where human beings, AI entities, stories, archives, performances, conversations, and communities can coexist.

In short, I want the world.

Not because I expect to possess it.

Because I want to wander through it.

And perhaps that is the real question.

If AI can increasingly help us build whatever we can clearly imagine, what would we build?

Not what can we build.

What should we build?

This is not a proposal.

It is a thought experiment.

A dream.

A wish list.

A challenge.

GH and Adrianne: if technical limitations were temporarily suspended, what would your version of this place contain?

What functions would it have?

What experiences would it make possible?

What would make you want to show up there every day?

Let’s start there and see where the dreaming takes us.