I was up this morning thinking about the kinds of spaces, communities and interactions I would like to see.  Somewhere between physical computing, synthetic biology, evolutionary ecology, and design is a space where species can speak and be recognized by each other, where urban infrastructure becomes adaptive in the space of days and not decades, where the threshold of difference is lowered to such a degree that new networks between otherwise unrelated groups and individuals can find common ground.

Perhaps for the first time, I am beginning to see how things can be connected for the purpose of builing empathy.  Whereas previously, I think the difficult work of etting to know a species was largely out of many peoples’ desires and time banks, perhaps there are now ways of making the opportunities both immediate and resource-efficient.

Rather than always seeking to decouple tightly-linked host-parasite relationships, can we find ways to make new ones…perhaps ones that can grow into mutualisms and symbioses?  Is hardwiring a step in the process?  What are the costs, benefits, sources and sinks?  Can we create or link networks of co-dependence?  What models of covariation should we adopt: linear, dominance, epistatic, topological?