I had my first conversation with David Bovill on Thursday 6th November.
From that day on, my learning curve was steep. I had known David previously from two projects of his in early 2021 and then again in 2022. I recognised his brilliance, broad vision for a better future and unusual knowledge base, which spanned medicine, technology, law, art, music and governance.
I remember one of the first images that grabbed my attention: the Fabulous Machine. Perhaps it was because I had had a dream, which became an element of my Legend of the Lost Story, of an Organic Machine, coming out from behind the clouds to the ground in front of me...or perhaps it was just seeing and hearing those two words together.
I listened to many hours of audio messages from David, his preferred mode of communicating. The topics ranges from the Fabulous Machine as a meta-idea, to its many moving parts, to how we would build those parts, to personal needs, group dynamics, agreements, programming, open source technologies, governance, constitutional design,