As power shifts from palaces to platforms, the true question is: who gets to shape the future, and who is left behind? This essay explores SE’s protocols for democratizing future-building, contesting elite capture, and ensuring technology serves all—not just the privileged few—through plural challenge, dissent, and living archives.

Protocol-locked roadmap for democratizing SI-driven futures and preventing elite capture—featuring weighted contestability, public audit, and recurring resets. Plural justice and autonomy are made actionable and challenge-ready, with all insights registry-locked and cross-linked in the SE Press corpus.