A Wystem is a system for wisdom: computational, social and ecological networks woven together, with which communities think and act on wicked problems. Reasoning alone, Socrates-style, doesn't cut it anymore.
How the word moved
In April 2024 the Wystem series worked through recipes, exchanges and interfaces. In 2025 it carried on in Wystems Thinking and Wystem Architecture. In March 2026 it turned into Wystem.AI and public intelligence, which is where the rubber meets the road.
In my words
"Reasoning alone - in the traditional Socratic style - isn’t enough: we need systems of thought."
from Wystem: A System for Wicked Problems, Part 1, 8 Apr 2024
Related
- Inherited from Socrates - He repurposed a new technology for truth seeking, and I want to do the same.
- Related ecosystem programming interface - It's one of the Wystem's concepts.
- Related public intelligence - It's built on the Wystem.
- Related common source - It's the organizational model in the series.
- Related planetary design - A Wystem is design for the planet.