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The Global Mind Project was a multinational research project initially developed around advanced weather prediction modelling. In the 2040s, it came into prominence because of its startlingly accurate predictions and spurred a global green technology movement, before failing because of various controversies. The ultimate goal of the Global Mind Project was Paradisia: a hypothetical future utopia where climate catastrophes were solved and nations lived in harmony.
Paradisian green technology. Art by Embreate
The Global Mind project in the year 2084 has been long disbanded but some of its labs and facilities are still operating and running tests in the the Project's former capital of Accra. Several nation-states and alliances including The Great Lakes Super Cluster, the West African Union, and the Scandinavian nations are operating on Paradesian World Models and thriving. The dream of Paradesia is not dead yet, but it has been scaled-back by reality.
The true lasting legacy of the Global Mind Project is the technology that has been built atop of it. The Source, the code that was used to build out the Project, is also the base for countless other products and systems including the Mirror and Future Now.
The Global Mind Project was founded in 2028. Built off of the advent of advanced weather modelling that was able to accurately predict catastrophic weather phenomenons, the Global Mind Project quickly grew to become a dominant force for scientific and social change. At its peak in the 2040, it comprised of an Earth-spanning supercomputer and was supported by 125 different independent member states.
There was widespread skepticism to the Global Mind Project at first. Despite its startling predictions, climate change deniers held firmly in their position. That was until the first Colossus hit, leaving much of the world devastated and entire swaths of land completely underwater. The Global Mind Project predicted such events, but nothing was done to stop them. A renewed vigour to prevent such catastrophes from ever happening again spurred global support for the project and the system became even more finely honed. With mass data input from member nations, the models became more and more advanced. If an individual was willing to put in their data, they could see how potential future weather catastrophes would effect them on a personal scale. The model that the Global Mind Project created was called Mirror World (or Mirror Earth) and the highly advanced simulation's code and engine would go on to become the backbone of many future predictive and modelling technologies.
The end goal of the Global Mind Project was a hypothetical utopia called Paradesia. This road map for constructing Paradesian society became known as the Path To Paradesia.
A predictive engine generation a city model for a Paradisian green city. Art by Embreate
The software that was used to power the global network became the kernel of the Paradisian system. It could prioritize a globally connected collective of people to help them prioritize projects, manage teams of people around them. All of it was open source by design. The Path to Paradesia was a super-secretive project within the broader Global Mind Project with only a dozen or scientists and researchers working on it. The goal was to try to build--or more accurately evolve--a utopian society using the sophisticated Mirror Earth technology. The idea was to run models of the Earth constructed by the Global Mind Project to test out ideas for systems that would lead to the most beneficial outcome for the most number of people. Machine learning would be responsible for analyzing the data and suggesting alternatives to the design. This evolutionary process created the Paradesian World Model. The World Model was unlike previous inflexible manifestos. It was not one set of codes, rather a set of variant possibilities for constructing Paradesia out of any scenario at any scale.
A Global Mind Project research facility. Art by Embreate
The process of determining the World Model involved translating human organizational systems into a language computer intelligences could interpret. This meant organizational concepts such as democracy, communism, capitalism and fascism and their infinite permutations could be run at all levels of a community, from the political system of a country all the way down to the parenting style of a family. Utilizing the resources of the Global Mind Project came with the added benefit of having access to the Life Path profiles of billions of people.
Inputting the computer data for the Global Mind Project. Art by Embreate.
Built into a few pages of code were the instructions for not only how to build the perfect society but how to navigate any country from any state to a Paradesian State. The Paradesian World Model that was developed out of these tests could be broadly defined as a Democratic Socialist one, but by design it does not track directly on to the standard left-right spectrum. Ideology was purposefully de-emphasized as it was developed not as some fantastical idea but a system that was analytically proven to work if implemented.