Worldbuilding as Infrastructure: The Cultural Layer of Web3
We’re excited to share this conversation, recorded last year when @dayvan first stepped into the Zk Av Club Recording Station.
Since then, Dayvan has joined Zk Av Club as a Storyteller, helping us listen for the threads inside community conversations, frame the context around them, and turn recordings into free and open source media for others to watch, share, learn from, and remix.
At ProtocolBerg in Berlin, Fotis and Dayvan find each other at the edge of the technical culture they inhabit. Both speculative fiction writers, Fotis reaches for frameworks while Dayvan reaches for the room.
The conversation moves between naming new phenomena and sitting with what still has no name. They trace how speculative fiction and gaming culture built the imaginative foundations of Web3, why collective dreaming tips toward the utopian while the dark psyche goes unaddressed, and what the intelligence addiction, our compulsion to make sense of everything, might be costing us.
They point to something new: a way of life this culture demands but has not yet learned to reflect on. Deriving meaning from the internet, building life decisions around technology, and navigating placelessness.
For the outsiders: a non-linear dialogue where the physical keeps revealing what the digital misses.
Thanks to @Omegaonchain for editing this release 
