What should we build, and why? Our essays, research papers, frameworks, and zine explore the questions behind our experiments.
Paper
2024
A peer-reviewed account of the lab's residential R&D model — what happens when researchers live inside the lab, and the lab inside a home. Published at CHI.
CHI 2024, Extended Abstracts
Essay
2024
A fictional Wikipedia article from twenty years in the future, chronicling open-source wearable AI. Awarded an honorable mention in MIT's Envisioning the Future of Computing competition — and overtaken by reality within months.
MIT Envisioning the Future of Computing
Framework
2023
The lab's central figure: someone who wields the hammer and the pen. Intelligence creates new things; wisdom chooses which things deserve to exist.
Zine
2023
A printed collection of essays and sketches from the 2023 residency, arguing that augmentation is not a product category but a way of reading the human condition. Available as a printable PDF.
Essay
2025
Most serious thinking about advanced AI is about failure. This is the lab's standing brief for the other branch: prototyping futures where the technology demonstrably serves human flourishing.
Framework
2025
The 2025 residency thesis: futures grow like root systems, not towers — interconnected, adaptive, collectively intelligent, and resistant to single points of control.
As We May Think
Illustration
Krebs Cycle of Creativity
Diagram: Neri Oxman
The hammer and the pen
Lab illustration
“Intelligence is the ability to create new things. Wisdom is knowing which things deserve to exist. The augmentation revolution demands both.”
