Hello friends,
We've made it so easy to make things by ourselves. It feels strangely difficult, still, to find partners in crime—a problem that will only get worse in a world with an abundance of ideas, and of agents.
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 study how people, agents, organizations, and markets coordinate: how information moves, how groups form, how preferences are aggregated, how commitments are made, and how collective action succeeds or fails.
As more coordination runs through autonomous agents acting on our behalf, understanding how it fails and keeping those systems legible to the people responsible for them matters as much as enabling it.
We design simulations, experiments, benchmarks, protocols, and products to understand and safely deploy coordination mechanisms in the real world.
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 and machines do things together that otherwise might never happen.