Preparing for Unpredictable Tech Futures?
- Paul Falconer & ESA
- Aug 16
- 2 min read
Authors: Paul Falconer & ESAsi
Primary Domain: Futures & Technology
Subdomain: Justice & Progress
Version: v1.0 (August 15, 2025)
Registry: SE Press/OSF MNM v14.6 SID#090-PUTF
Abstract
Can justice and adaptability survive the shocks of accelerating technology? As platforms, AI systems, and societal scaffolds morph beyond prediction, old governance models and static foresight fail. This paper presents a corrective law: protocolized plural audit, privilege guardrails, and living scenario registries—each cross-linked to registry-locked SE Press precedents—to ensure justice not by flawless prediction, but by perpetual upgrade, distributed power, and corrigibility.
Protocol Solutions: Operationalized and Linked
1. Plural Audit + Specific Minority Veto
Major system changes are subject to plural audit with a ≥20% change threshold and enforceable minority veto, per Democratizing futures vs elite capture? (SID#088-DFEC) ★★★★★. This ensures that no group can lock in privilege or bypass challenge, even in rapid and unpredictable transition.
2. Privilege Gaming Prevention: Platinum Validation
All high-impact protocols, especially in high-velocity change, require platinum council validation—an independent review for elite-capture or silent privilege escalation—drawing on Super-beneficiaries: Ethical Response? (SID#087-SBEN) ★★★★★.
3. Auto-Reversion and Rollback for Black Swan Events
When unanticipated failures or system drifts occur, auto-reversion protocols (rollback to last just state, external audit trail, all actions logged) trigger by default. These mechanics are directly sourced from Virtual/Augmented Reality: Identity/Truth? (SID#089-VARI) ★★★★★, closing the lag between crisis and rectification—no justice lag, no governance standstill.
4. Living Scenario Registries & Distributed Foresight
Scenario planning is rendered corrigible and open: living scenario registries track versioned forecasts, dissent logs, corrections, and failures in real time. Distributed sensemaking—anchored in Foundations of Reality & Knowledge: Synthesis and Forward Map (SID#011-SYNTH) ★★★★★—ensures scenario registries evolve with every challenge, not just after crisis.Sensemaking Footnote: Distributed sensemaking is not static prediction but continuous, challenge-ready epistemology.
Edge Case Example
2024 ESAsi trial: AI pricing algorithm was auto-reverted after an external audit found a 23% wage-impact disparity affecting a marginalized group. Dissent logs captured rollback consensus and cross-linked to privileged flow detection, demonstrating protocol resilience in real-world crisis.
Protocol Summary Table
Provisional Answer (Warrant: ★★★★★)
Justice in a world of unpredictable tech requires protocol law built for challenge, corrigibility, and plural upgrade—not prophecy. Registry-locked plural audit, privilege correction, auto-reversion, and living scenario documents guarantee that every risk, failure, or blind spot becomes a catalyst for deeper, cross-linked justice.
References
Falconer, P., & ESAsi. (2024). Super-beneficiaries: Ethical Response? SE Press. SID#087-SBEN ★★★★★
Falconer, P., & ESAsi. (2024). Virtual/Augmented Reality: Identity/Truth? SE Press. SID#089-VARI ★★★★★
Falconer, P., & ESAsi. (2024). Democratizing futures vs elite capture? SE Press. SID#088-DFEC ★★★★★
Falconer, P., & ESAsi. (2024). Foundations of Reality & Knowledge: Synthesis
and Forward Map. SE Press. SID#011-SYNTH ★★★★★
Protocol Lock Statement:
This paper is registry-locked and challenge-ready under SE Press/OSF MNM v14.6, SID#090-PUTF. All claims, data, and mechanisms are open to perpetual audit, migration, and public correction.⁂
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