Participants enter a dim AiV installation now humming with living presence: six‑node well‑being identities replace queues and queues, and a fifth “Anomaly” orb appears beneath the Futures Cone. As W × Vcom logs flood into each STEEPL screen, the old scenarios—AI technocracy, fragmentation, post‑scarcity, collapse—glitch and fuse.
The system can’t price presence. In a cascading failure, the simulation breaks from within, revealing that logging our own presence was the true Black Swan. Presence, not prediction, becomes the protocol variable that forks the future .
