Studies

The Fabric and the Brain

Articulating agent ecologies with high-personality planetary computation

Mar 31 • Venkatesh Rao and Protocolized

A Government Guide to Open Protocols

Public sector teams must go beyond the in-house or off-the-shelf dichotomy to take advantage of open protocols, which offer a unique way to manage both…

Mar 19 • Kelly Roegies and Protocolized

Theorizing Protocolization II: Atomic Protocol Questions

Solving real coordination problems to discover the formal laws of protocols.

Mar 4 • Venkatesh Rao, Patrick Nast, and Protocolized

Have Your Factory Call My Factory

In this installment of our Obliquities editorial column, we argue that the social kernels circulating in intelligence media are the equivalent of…

Mar 2 • Venkatesh Rao and Protocolized

Casio: Adequate Enough to Rule the World

How a cheap plastic watch became a landmark in the world of sci-fi, geopolitics and terror – and what it might mean for contemporary consumer gadgets.

Jan 28 • Timber Stinson-Schroff and Protocolized

The Color of Safety

From Birren to OSHA, in reality and on-screen, how does pigment play a role in protecting workers from harm and making mistakes?

Jan 19 • Venkatesh Rao and Protocolized

Finding Fault Lines within the Firm

Disruptive AI tools present an opportunity to observe business protocols that usually remain hidden. This article shares what has been revealed so far…

Jan 11 • rafa and Protocolized

Theorizing Protocolization I: New Nature

Progress through Invisibility and the Planetary Computational Tangle

Jan 8 • Venkatesh Rao and Patrick Nast

Memory Research Group: Six Months of Reading Backward Through Time

Issue #83: Sometimes What is Remembered Most is What is Most Dynamically Changing

Dec 27, 2025 • Kei Kreutler and Protocolized

Curate Your Own Pipeline

Issue #80: How to use LLMs and write like a centaur

Dec 14, 2025 • Amita and Protocolized

Disentangling the State of Climate Protocols

Issue #78: A big little idea called durability

Dec 6, 2025 • Cory Levinson and Protocolized

Generative AI in Cultural Projects Urgently Requires Protocols

Issue #65: Sociotechnical Tensions, Meetup, Bounties

Oct 25, 2025 • Nicolás Madoery and Protocolized

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