ABOUT THE PROJECT

What the project
is for.

Ideas Bank, Vault and UI (Universal Provision) ask how we could look after ideas and unfinished matters, and provide for future people. These are proposals. The tools available here help you think through a first step.

Care Continuity, our sibling project from Weidu, focuses on continuity of care. This exploration asks what continuity could mean for an idea, an unfinished matter, or the possibilities future people inherit. The material and the people behind it deserve respect.

Dreams, questions and evidence

This project grew from dream recollections and reflections on life, our ancestors’ efforts, and the world future people may inherit. A dream can inspire a useful question without establishing a fact about reality.

We distinguish personal recollection, speculative hypotheses, and real services. Questions about future intelligence or forms of life remain speculative. No future being, technology, or institution is represented as able or committed to take care of a matter.

For now, we can ask what might help, listen to criticism and try small practical steps.

Ideas Bank: idea dignity, origins, and permission

Idea dignity is the principle that an idea and the people behind it deserve respect. An idea should travel with its origins, authors, contributors, and permissions intact. A proposed Ideas Bank would help recognise contributions without treating disclosure as a transfer of ownership.

• Keep a traceable, correctable record of provenance and acknowledge collective or community contributions.
• Offer a choice about attribution, pseudonyms, and privacy; credit must not force someone’s identity into public view.
• Record what may be used, by whom, for which purpose, and under which version of an agreement.
• Provide a way to challenge credit, address disputes, and withdraw future permissions within explained limits.

An ideas record cannot guarantee novelty, legal protection, commercial value, or sole ownership. No ideas are being received or registered here.

Vault: care is not a promise to finish

The Vault is a proposal for entrusting an unfinished matter to be safely considered or cared for later. A future agreement would need to say precisely what can be held, what a steward may do, what remains forbidden, and when care ends.

Care may mean preserving something, asking for a review, finding an appropriate person, pausing, or deciding it should not proceed. It does not promise completion, permanent preservation, a particular outcome, or action by future people or technologies.

Private deposits are closed. Secure storage, accountable operators, lawful authority, and tested processes do not yet exist as part of this site. This page cannot receive instructions for after death or incapacity, act as a legal instrument, or replace appropriate professional arrangements.

UI (Universal Provision)

Universal Provision is a working concept: how might people here now, and people still to come, have what they need to flourish? UI names that open question. It is not a defined technology or an operating service. Future people should inherit real possibilities, rather than only the costs of what we consume today.

Provision could mean restored habitats, shared knowledge, useful infrastructure, time, care, or fair access. It may involve no money at all. This is not a cryptocurrency or credit scheme. No tokens, investment returns, financial accounts, allocations to unborn people, or other financial service are offered.

Any future proposal must be examined for who benefits, who bears its costs, who can change it, and whether it preserves the agency of future people rather than deciding their lives for them.

Care includes the living world

A wish to complete something is not sufficient reason to act. People, other living beings, communities, and ecosystems must be considered. Harmful, coercive, exploitative, or unlawful requests cannot be accepted. Unclear consent or consequences are reasons to pause.

A future service would need an accountable review process, ways to refuse and appeal, safeguarding, community representation where relevant, and limits on the resources used. It must not make speculative benefits an excuse for harm now.

The site uses simple pages, local illustrations and no external fonts. The app makes no AI calls and runs no background tasks. These choices avoid unnecessary overhead, but we have not measured their carbon impact.

What must come before real intake

1. Accountable stewardship. Named operators, a defined scope, appropriate authority, published contacts, complaint and appeal processes, and a closure or succession plan.
2. Privacy and consent design. A data inventory, retention and deletion rules, risk and impact assessments, separate permissions, and a rights process people can actually use.
3. Tested technical controls. Least-privilege access, strong authentication, encryption with understood key and recovery risks, isolation, audit trails, secure backups, and incident response.
4. Independent review. Security testing and remediation, privacy and legal review appropriate to the service and location, abuse testing, and accessible user research.
5. An honest launch decision. Publish evidence and limits, confirm readiness, and open only the bounded service that has been tested. Do not accept sensitive material early “for later”.

These are prerequisites, not features claimed to be implemented. No system can promise perfect security or unlimited future care.

Sources used for the design

The technical readiness work draws on the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard; the privacy design draws on ICO data protection by design guidance; accessibility design uses WCAG 2.2. These references do not certify this site or settle its future legal obligations.