Research programs and major works across protocol infrastructure, institutional mechanisms, economic systems, media platforms, and public adaptation.
The Lab's work is organized here by research object rather than publication type. Programs group multiple artifacts around sustained questions; major works stand on their own. Whitepapers, RFCs, briefs, simulations, and implementation outlines remain available through their respective archives.
Research Programs
Active Protocol Program
A standards-oriented protocol stack for representing sports rights, access, entitlement, and settlement infrastructure through RFCs, registries, and reference artifacts.
Canonical identifiers, registry hardening, resolver deployment, pilot implementation, and rights graph interoperability.
Active Research Program
A labor lifecycle research stack focused on reducing required lifetime labor through staged institutional adaptation, retirement modernization, phased participation, and fiscal guardrails.
Political conditions, sectoral adoption, employer adaptation, retirement policy modernization, and the social structure of time beyond required labor.
Published Mechanism Stack
A public mechanism proposal for preventing essential federal workers from becoming involuntary creditors during government shutdowns.
Payroll continuity authority, Treasury advances, statutory implementation, shutdown resilience, and operational behavior under prolonged funding lapses.
Active Research Program
A research track exploring how societies encode historical memory, cultural rupture, sovereignty, language, and collective identity into durable symbolic forms, public objects, and interpretive systems.
Symbolic monument design, public-memory systems, cultural continuity, rupture, language, sovereignty, and interpretive infrastructure.
Research Cluster
A set of papers and design artifacts exploring how media platforms, synthetic content, audience participation, rights systems, discovery, and distribution economics reshape platform infrastructure.
Streaming economics, synthetic media formats, participatory storytelling, discovery systems, content tiering, platform governance, and monetization.
Major Research
Substantial research objects that stand independently rather than as multi-artifact programs.
A bounded-risk model for limiting household exposure to covered healthcare costs while preserving the existing roles of insurers, employers, and public programs.
An education operating model centered on completion, attendance, remediation, measurable outcomes, and constrained cost.
A strategic operating model for extending the current console generation through longer hardware cycles, portable purchases, free online play, and streaming as a service layer.
A systems proposal examining how large-scale energy abundance and infrastructure expansion could change the constraints surrounding decarbonization and economic growth.
A structural model for separating major college athletics from the academic institutions that currently contain and subsidize them.
The Lab works through structured artifacts that clarify how systems represent rights, absorb shocks, shift incentives, and transition without requiring total institutional replacement.
The research page maps the intellectual structure of the Lab. The archive pages preserve the full publication record by artifact type.
