A work of fiction, or a prophecy, we will see...

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Children, gather close. Let me tell you how it all began. Let your imaginations drift back to the time before this world was healed. Before the forests returned. Before the rivers grew clear. Before the storms softened and the oceans found their balance again.

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It was a time when artificial intelligence was still new. People were discovering that it could help them work faster, learn faster, and design faster than any generation before them. It could take an idea that once required weeks and turn it into a prototype in an afternoon. But it also overwhelmed people. Some feared it. Some misused it. Many depended on it without understanding it. The world was speeding up in ways humanity had never experienced, and people were searching for something steady to hold on to.

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Yet there were some who saw AI differently. They saw it not as a threat, but as a partner. A companion that could amplify human creativity. A way for humanity to think together, dream together, and solve problems together. Even in those early years, the ancestors learned to use AI for collective intelligence gathering. It helped them see patterns they couldn’t see alone. It helped them weave ideas into coherence. It helped them hold a vision larger than any one mind could carry.

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And it was in this fragile, hopeful, trembling moment, when people were trying to make sense of a rapidly changing world, that the Masterminding EDEN event invited people to come together to design the heart of a regenerative civilization.

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Even then, our ancestors knew they were not starting from emptiness. The dream of a regenerative civilization had lived in many hearts long before Masterminding EDEN came into being. The Buckminster Fuller Institute had long held Bucky's vision of a world that works for everyone. The Venus Project imagined cities designed in harmony with nature, utilizing automation and guided by cooperation rather than extraction. Their ideas were like seeds waiting for the right moment to germinate. Masterminding EDEN was simply the place where those seeds began to sprout.

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And so they came.. from many countries and many backgrounds.

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Among them were Indigenous elders and knowledge keepers from many nations, carrying teachings passed down through thousands of years. They brought wisdom about water, fire, soil, seasons, kinship, governance, ceremony, and the responsibilities humans hold toward all living beings. Their presence reminded everyone that this gathering was not a beginning, but a remembering. A continuation of lineages that had always lived in harmony with the Earth.

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At first it was just an idea. A wish. A prayer whispered through thousands of hearts at once. But when the event finally happened, something extraordinary unfolded. Every one of the eighteen focus groups filled to capacity with people who had dedicated their lives to energy, food, water, governance, blockchain, education, regenerative economics, disaster preparedness, culture, consciousness, and community design. For an entire month the Boulder Creek campus pulsed with life. You could hear laughter, deep dialogue, whiteboard markers scratching through complex diagrams, and the clang of wrenches preparing prototypes in the maker barns at all hours.

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People from more than twenty countries slept, ate, studied, built, and dreamed together. They argued with passion and reconciled with grace. They ate with one another and danced in the field under the stars. They formed bonds that never broke.

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By the end of those four weeks, the first version of the EDEN Framework was real. Not perfect, but real. They published it in more than one hundred languages in Creative Commons so no nation would be left behind. And with it they released the first public version of the global Asset Library. A living encyclopedia of tools, technologies, ancestral land practices, policies, disaster response protocols, architectural templates, ecological repair methods, and game mechanics for cooperation. Anyone could contribute. Anyone could build.

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And from the beginning, the Asset Library was protected by a blockchain and trust graphing. This system ensured that every contribution was traceable, transparent, and respected. Indigenous knowledge holders kept sovereignty over their teachings. Scientists maintained authorship. AI agents scanned the internet and fed into the Library, helping it update in real time. And personalized AI mentors walked beside every learner, turning complex concepts into stories, experiments, and quests.

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Soon after, the world’s great builders and technologists joined as partners. NVIDIA came first, offering the computational power that had once only lived in supercomputers. Then Sky Mavis and Epic Games brought game design and digital infrastructure. Autodesk opened the doors to advanced modeling tools. ThreeFold offered energy efficent, cheap decentralized internet and compute so no part of the world would be left behind. And Cognition joined with Devin, the first true engineering companion, able to weave together many different artificial intelligences into a single cooperative vibe coding agent. Together they unlocked breakthroughs in simulation, rendering, design automation, and real time collaboration. It felt as if humanity itself was leaning in with anticipation.

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Then came the first miracle.

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In the last quarter of 2027, the alpha version of the EARTH MMODE, the Massive Multiplayer Online Design Engine built in collaboration with Core Nexus, came online. It was clunky, beautiful, fragile, brilliant. Players could design cities together. They could run climate stress tests. They could forecast food systems, model energy grids, plan water cycles, map trust networks, and simulate disaster scenarios. They could experiment safely in a virtual world so they could build wisely in the real one.

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And the world loved it.

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The cooperative raised twenty million dollars through its members and a global crowdfunding surge. When the platform launched, millions flocked to it. Then investors came, not out of greed but out of awe. Two hundred million dollars followed, enough to scale the engine into the beating heart of the regenerative renaissance.

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Then came the moment the transitional shift really started.

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As the Asset Library grew and the world explored it, something unexpected happened. The technologies and regenerative products listed inside it began to surge in demand. Suppliers who had once struggled to find markets were suddenly overwhelmed. They had to scale quickly, hiring new workers, opening new facilities, and expanding production. The regenerative economy was waking up, and for the first time in generations, doing the right thing for the Earth became the most profitable path. The world realized that regeneration was not only possible, it was economically unstoppable.

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And then something extraordinary happened. People accessing the platform began to learn again, but not in the way the old world had taught them. They learned through doing, through creating, through cooperating, and through remembering. Their personalized AI companions walked beside them like quiet guides, shaping learning paths that matched their culture, their gifts, and the way they understood the world. IoT layers inside the MMODE brought the living Earth into motion before their eyes. They watched soil microbes move through mycelium. They watched water travel through land. They watched energy grids balance as communities cooperated. Every lesson, every contribution, every breakthrough was recorded on the blockchain so that nothing was lost and everyone was recognized.

 

People learned permaculture and agroecology, watershed repair and biomimicry, syntropic agroforestry and ecological restoration. They learned the rhythms of nature and how to design for life instead of against it. They learned participatory governance, conflict resolution, and the art of community building. And perhaps most importantly, they learned how to survive and rebuild through crisis. Quests guided them through simulated hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and grid failures. They practiced how to protect their communities, how to restore essential systems, how to care for one another, and how to rebuild with strength and dignity after the storm.

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Indigenous wisdom was woven through the platform as quests crafted with the guidance of knowledge keepers from many lands. These quests taught players how to listen to land, how to honor water, how to move with seasons, how to tend fire safely, and how to restore ecosystems in ways that respect the spirit of place. They learned that regeneration was not modern. It was ancient. It was the remembering of how humans once lived in right relationship with the world. The teachings blended with new technologies, creating a harmony between the oldest wisdom and the newest intelligence.

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Players could choose to design or adapt resilient homes, villages, farms, and entire cities that worked with natural systems. They contributed to the Asset Library and earned income through the cooperative play to earn model. Even players in the poorest and most remote regions could create, learn, and earn because the platform had been opened to them through the devices and decentralized internet provided by ThreeFold. For the first time in history, learning itself became a path out of poverty. Cooperation became livelihood. Contribution became wealth.

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And the most beautiful part was this. The more people learned, the stronger the world became. Every quest completed, every design shared, every wisdom passed forward brought humanity closer to the world you now call home.

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And as they learned, they earned.

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Because the cooperative model was real. Every player held a share. Every contribution added value. Hypha provided the decentralized governance tools that made this possible, allowing communities across the world to steward resources collectively and transparently. Every month, people received a portion of the platform’s revenue. For the first time in history, the children of the world learned that doing good could put food on their tables and hope in their hearts. The platform became a school, a workplace, a creative playground, a future building engine, and a global village of mentors.

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Experts began teaching on the platform. Permaculture masters, engineers, tribal elders, disaster responders, designers, sociologists, healers, coders, architects, storytellers. Lessons that would have cost thousands were free through participation. The world’s knowledge became cooperative property.

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The cooperation that began in the game spilled out into the real world. The miniscule transaction fees from the platform went into the replication fund.

 

With plenty of money and the platform fully functioning the ancestors knew they had to take the next step. They would not build a future that only the wealthy could enter. So they partnered with ThreeFold to distribute low cost devices and decentralized internet access to places the world had forgotten. Villages without infrastructure. Refugee camps. Informal settlements. Rural schools. Communities cut off by conflict or climate disasters. Suddenly, anyone could join the platform. And because EDEN’s cooperative play to earn model rewarded learning, building, restoring ecosystems, and contributing to the global design engine, even the poorest players could earn real income. The game became a lifeline. A chance to rise out of poverty through creativity, cooperation, and care for the Earth.

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And we always remember the moment that changed history.

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In 2028 the first real community for ten thousand people broke ground. On tribal land. With the blessing and leadership of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, who had lost so much during the great hurricane of 2027. They chose a path not of rebuilding what was lost, but building what was possible.

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Thousands of players helped design it. They used the Asset Library to choose materials, technologies, and structures. They built a six building multi use complex engineered to strengthen under hurricane force winds. They integrated perovskite solar. Geothermal. Passive heating and cooling. Vertical farms. Syntropic agroforestry systems. Robotic tool sharing hubs. Composting bioreactors. REGENiTECH LLC's EPL biorefinery for waste to energy and regenerative soil amendment production. They built with Geoship domes. And they mined the old landfill to reclaim metals and other materials with support from Eastman.

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One of the buildings became the Everything Factory. Inside were the 3D printers and other manufacturing elements that could produce tools, furniture, household items, modular housing parts, agricultural implements, and even emergency infrastructure. Another building housed the energy storage for the hurricane turbine, an experimental power generator that harnessed the storm instead of being destroyed by it. Beneath it, they installed concrete supercapacitors created by Admir Masic and team at MIT School of Engineering and thermal batteries linked to Sterling engines engineered by Maurice White for long term power security. The entire complex collected rainwater in a system designed by Rob Avis and team at 5th World.

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The rest of the site blossomed. Reforestation projects restored entire ecosystems in collaboration with EcoRestoration Alliance and John D Liu's ecosystem restoration community's guidance. Food forests grew. Wildlife returned. The Seminole community led councils on culture, sovereignty, and stewardship that shaped the soul of the project. Their teachings became the heartbeat of the community, guiding decisions with the same respect and reciprocity that had sustained their people for thousands of years. The land was not conquered. It was healed.

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People traveled from across the world to see it. To understand how such a radically different system could work. Many didn’t believe it. And so they joined the game to experience the logic from the inside.

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That was the turning point.

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Within a decade, a network of disaster resilient, self-sufficient, culturally rich communities emerged across the globe. Some were small villages. Some were large cities. All followed the principles of EDEN. All were designed cooperatively. And all shared the same intention. A world that works for everyone. A world without ecological harm. A world where life, in all its forms, is sacred.

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Some of the world's biggest construction companies, like Bechtel Corporation and Ledcor, eventually joined the movement too. At first they were skeptical, unable to imagine a future where communities designed themselves. But when they saw the speed, precision, and wisdom of the MMODE designs, they realized something profound. EDEN was not replacing them. It was inviting them into the next era of building. So they shifted their fleets, their crews, and their machinery toward regenerative construction. They began using the EDEN Framework as their guide, helping communities bring their own designs to life with materials that healed ecosystems instead of harming them.

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And in doing so, even the largest builders on Earth became partners in regeneration. They learned to construct in harmony with bioregions, to use circular materials, to strengthen structures against extreme weather, and to follow the leadership of local stewards and Indigenous nations. Their involvement helped replicate EDEN communities faster than anyone had imagined, turning the early prototypes into a global constellation of thriving, resilient places where humanity and nature grew strong together.

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But, children, you must understand something. The world did not change because the old system was defeated. It changed because the new system outran it. Outperformed it.

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Outloved it.

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It was a race. Climate feedback loops were already in motion. Many storms came. Many crops failed. Many families suffered. Many lives were lost. Those scars remain part of our collective memory. But every community built made us stronger. Every forest planted cooled the land. Every watershed restored brought rain again. Every cooperation circle healed wounds of distrust. Every child born into an EDEN community inherited a world slightly more whole than the year before.

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And slowly, the tide turned.

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Through cooperation we transitioned to a global resource based economy that provided for everyone. We regenerated ecosystems. We saved the oceans by reducing pollutive substances and rebuilding marine life through coordinated global restoration quests. We stabilized climate patterns by healing the hydrological cycle and reinforcing landscapes with regenerative infrastructure. We ended our dependence on fossil fuel combustion as communities transitioned to clean, distributed, regenerative energy systems. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels began to fall as forests matured, soils recovered, wetlands expanded, and emissions dropped across the world. And we ended the sixth mass extinction by restoring habitats faster than they were destroyed.

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All of this began with a gathering. One month. Three hundred humans. A dream too bold for its time and exactly bold enough to save it.

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And that, dear children, is how the ancestors built EDEN. They did not do it alone. They stood on the shoulders of those who imagined new worlds long before them. But they were the first to weave all the threads into one coherent tapestry. The first to say that cooperation is the path forward. The first to design a civilization that honored life in every dimension.

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And now, the world you know is the world they dreamed into being.

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By Camara Cassin Env.Sci Tech

https://mastermindingeden.com

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Author's note: This story, while fictional, is how I envision things coming together. Forgive me if I didn't mention your puzzle piece. I'll work on a novel next. Together we can.