The Adjacent Possible in the Decentralized Web

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During its run, Maurice highlighted interviews in 1998 with the family of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, Sr. as most memorable and important. Dahmer was murdered in 1966 on orders of the Ku Klux Klan after gaining attention for helping Black Mississippians vote. At the time of the first interview in February 1998, stalled justice was being re-energized. Billy Roy Pitts, who was convicted but had not served a life sentence, turned himself in to state officials and later was a key witness for the prosecution of the KKK leader who ordered the murder.


The Mississippi Star was published decades after 


Civil Rights Movement and the key figures and actions from that point in history continued to impact the Black community in South Mississippi in the late 1990s. Feature articles and photographs from community events documented the importance of those historical leaders even as new leaders in the community emerged. Now, nearly thirty years later, this publication speaks to the progress and stories of Mississippi. Evidence of local happenings, successes, remembrances, public announcements, and day-to-day life are now available for locals and researchers from around the globe to access thanks to support from Community Webs and Internet Archive.


As I understand it, the concept of the “adjacent possible


Describes changes just within reach given the current state of a system’s knowledge, resources, and components. It’s a “shadow future” of the possibilities on the edge of the present. The adjacent possible asks: what can you learn from existing building blocks to create new ones?


THE EXPERIMENT: Over the course of three days and nights, in a house in the Presidio of San Francisco, can you take 10 core peer-to-peer (P2P) developers, 2 research directors, 1 editor, and 3 stewards, mix them up, expose them to provocative prompts, and see if some breakthroughs in understanding and technical consensus are possible?



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