Future Chronicles: An Algorithm of Our Own
Curated and hosted by Karen Palmer, Storyteller from the Future
In collaboration with Black Rhino VR
Supported by the British Council as part of the UK/Kenya Season
I didn’t come back from the future alone. I came back with a transmission — and with a tribe.
This wasn’t a panel. It was a coded gathering. A live convergence of technologists, Indigenous knowledge holders, ethicists, artists, and system architects — people carrying seeds for new futures. Together, we cracked open the question:
What if we designed intelligence from the soul outward — not from the server in?
We tuned in from Nairobi, London, Lagos, New York — but this wasn’t about location. It was about frequency.
From the first moment, you could feel the shift. The nervous system responded before the brain had time to catch up. People wrote in the chat:
“My whole body just responded.”
“I didn’t expect this — I needed it.”
“I feel like I just got my Source Code back.”
That’s the work. That’s what happens when you stop trying to fix a broken system and start building from a deeper signal — the one we’ve always had but were told to forget.
The speakers weren’t just guests. They were co-conspirators.
Wakanyi Hoffman spoke on Ubuntu as more than a philosophy — as protocol, as lived technology.
Mophat Okinyi flipped the idea of data ownership and asked what it would mean to care for data the way we care for elders.
Kambale Musavuli connected the cobalt in our devices to the colonial logic still embedded in AI’s supply chain.
Taylor DeClue reminded us that this isn’t a content war. It’s a soul war.
Mario Marquez cracked the system open and spoke to building new languages where old systems can’t hear us.
Rex Lee dropped fire on the urgent need for an Electronic Bill of Rights.
And Black Rhino VR grounded it all in creative resistance — immersive storytelling as cultural memory and future-claiming.
Every single one of them brought a piece of the code.
This space was never meant to be consumed — it was meant to activate. It didn’t just raise awareness. It rewired perception. It was story as technology. Community as OS.
And now, people are asking what comes next:
“Can this be a series?”
“Can we bring this into institutions?”
“Can we use this as a tool for training, learning, imagining differently?”
Yes.
That’s exactly the point.
This is a prototype. A signal.
Future Chronicles is part of something much bigger — a larger ecosystem of immersive tools, labs, and living systems that reimagine AI through story, spirit, and agency.
If you’re reading this, you’ve already heard the signal.
If you want in — come correct.
Not just with credentials, but with alignment.
Let’s make the next iteration together.
Let’s write the algorithm of our own.
I’m Karen Palmer — and this is only the beginning.
