It is 2045. Colombia, a country known for its rich natural diversity, has spent the past years implementing an ambitious plan to mitigate the effects of climate change, extractivism, corporatism, and most importantly, its long history of violence.

Fed up with the government being unable to solve the country’s most pressing problems, scientists, citizens, indigenous communities, and other minorities took action. They developed a revolutionary technology to give nature a political voice. They call it Natural Intelligence (NI), a planet-centric algorithmic solution designed to elevate nature to the category of a transcendental agent in the constitution. Its operating principles are inspired by nature-conservation indigenous teachings.

NI uses a virtually infinite network of micro-sensors scattered through ecosystems to collect data in real-time and analyze them. This network creates a cloud-based intelligence that can represent the interests of nature.

With this technology, Colombians have been able to change the political decision-making process. NI not only allows individuals to talk to nature and gain awareness and consideration for the environment in which they live. It also enables nature to get a seat at the country’s decision-making table and directly participate, through voting, in the political process. The experiment has meant an intellectual revolution like no other in recent history.

This innovation has resulted in a stronger societal relationship with ecosystems. People seek alternatives to the industry 5.0 way of life. Society en masse does not accept the destruction of nature.