Vela Network

1. The Ontology of Context: A Primer

An exploration of how context shapes meaning, memory, and institutional knowledge. This essay examines the fundamental nature of context as a living system that evolves through human-AI collaboration, proposing a new framework for understanding how information transforms into wisdom within agentic institutions.

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2. A Synthesis of Context: Convergent Theories

Drawing from cybernetics, systems theory, and contemporary AI research, this essay synthesizes disparate approaches to context management. It reveals how seemingly unrelated fields converge on similar principles when addressing the challenge of preserving and evolving institutional memory.

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3. The Technomancer Economy: Post‑Labour Value, Governance, and Game Structure

Where labour ends, play begins, yet stakes remain. This essay explores the emergence of Context Rent as the new basis of value creation, examining how human agency transforms from direct production to meta-production: the design of rule-sets, curation of agent portfolios, and stewardship of shared meaning in post-labour economies.

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4. Moats Circa 2027: A Framework for Defensibility

A dispatch from a hypothetical 2027, providing a framework for where defensible advantages will likely be built. This analysis deconstructs the multi-layered, compounding advantages that define the competitive stack of the agentic economy, revealing why the moat was not the agent's raw intellect, but the verifiable digital society it inhabited.

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