The ninth installment of Dominic Chen’s series Fermentation and Generation: The “Desire Path” — An Alternative to Information Technology, titled “A Question Ten Years in the Making”, has been published in the web magazine Plain living, high thinking.
The idea of “fermentation of thought” is deeply connected to the question that emerged from the memory of letting a nukadoko spoil in 2008. The failure to notice the invisible presence of microorganisms gave rise to the idea of Nukabot, which later developed further into Pickles. Both nukadoko and questions are not objects to be managed, but beings more like “companion species” that change together with us. Technology is positioned not as something that automates everything, but as a medium that allows humans to touch, think, and nurture their questions.
Ninth article:
