Tribal Technology: When Communities Build Their Own Tools

​AI is making it possible for anyone to create tools tailored to their needs. But what happens when that power extends beyond individuals to entire communities?

​Across the world, communities are building their own technologies, shaping how they coordinate, govern, connect, and live together.

​In this session, we'll explore the fascinating tools emerging from different communities, the problems they're trying to solve, and interesting patterns we've noticed along the way.

​And perhaps we'll venture into some bigger, more existential questions: Will technology bring us closer together, or the opposite?

​Hosts:

​Jmill: One of the two engineers who helped build Edge City's Agent Village for the recent Edge Goa gathering. He'll share his experience building technology for an experimental community. He is also a community builder who has been involved in Mars College and various rationalist communities, and he will share the technologies used by those groups as well.

​Lucy: Creator of a connection card game called Introverse, designed to help introverts and neurodivergent people connect in large communities and unconferences where social interactions can sometimes feel overwhelming. She'll share her personal experiences with community technologies as a slightly autistic introvert, and explore how technology can make human connection more accessible and meaningful.