Featurette: Blockchain Ecologies: Ownership Beyond Extraction

Abstract

The hum of an approaching drone initiates a soft chirp from the digital tree tag. The forester scans the tag for Tree #4475, scrolling through the data to verify its trunk diameter with the AI’s open request. The tree width is accurate, but a bloom of fungal caps around the trunk base gives the worker pause. The forester inputs the presence of the rhizome into the software interface and waits for the smart contract’s harvesting protocol to adjust ...