A new alliance.

Things in the world are connected much more deeply than we realize.

Over the past year, I’ve been developing and writing and speaking about the urgency/opportunity of our awakening into active, intentional participation in the ecosystems that we inhabit, that comprise everything in the world. And really, I see my entire career so far as the pursuit of a beautiful convergence of digital and physical, of humanity and technology — mostly guided by intuition and the good fortune of encountering new allies at the most opportune moments.

The connected magic of mushrooms and mycelium has been a throughline, a kind of breadcrumb leading the way — and recently this path has led me to Nils Pihl and Auki Labs.

We share an understanding of the inevitability of the digital-physical convergence, a passion for the ways language creates reality, and a determination to use technology to help realize a converged future that is deeply connected, averts surveillance via decentralization, and enables humanity to thrive in symbiosis with the ecosystems of the planet.

Auki Labs has created groundbreaking technology that promises to solve the thorniest problem on the path to this convergence: Precise spatial location. Specifically, precise mapping of digital content and objects to physical contexts without relying on intrusive surveillance. In technical terms, a…