Hello friends,
We've made it so easy to make things by ourselves. It feels strangely difficult, still, to find partners in crime, to play calendar tetris with my friends, or even to find folks to jam with.
Though we’ve dramatically lowered the cost of making things, we’ve barely reduced the cost of coordinating around them. Over the last ten years I’ve witnessed far too much creative potential collapse because the right configuration of people, information, and capital couldn’t be assembled in time. Ideas may persist, but individual and collective motivations have expiration dates.
Radiofuture is a coordination systems lab. We use fieldwork, simulations, and experimental products to design new ways for people (and agents!) to safely find each other and do things together. Where more of this runs through agents, we're building ways to see when it's going wrong.
The name radiofuture comes from radio: a once new medium that let signals travel without a physical wire between people. That simple possibility gave rise to new forms of communication, which in turn shaped how we find one another and what we can achieve together.
We exist to invent and enable the systems of communication, discovery, and coordination that let people do things together that otherwise might never happen.