Naturally, independence presupposes a minimal measure of intrinsic complexity. The slip box needs a number of years in order to reach critical mass. Until then, it functions as a mere container from which we can retrieve what we put in. This changes with its growth in size and complexity. On the one hand, the number of approaches and occasions for questions increases. The slip box becomes a universal instrument. You can place almost everything in it, and this not just ad hoc and in isolation, but with internal possibilities of connections [with other contents]. It becomes a sensitive system that internally reacts to many ideas, as long as they can be noted down. If we ask, for instance, why on the one hand museums are empty, while on the other hand exhibitions of paintings by Monet, Picasso, or Medici are too crowded, the slip box accepts this question under the perspective of “preference for what is temporally limited.”
Un sistema de preguntas y emergencias similares se puede hacer cuando el slipbox tiene otras materialidades. En mi caso, suelo enviarme mensajes de texto/voz a mí mismo (principalmente vía Telegram), con la esperanza futura de que las pueda tenerlas con un chatbot (en otra red) y que mi yo futuro implementará esas conversaciones algorítmicas, las interconexiones con otros ecosistemas digitales y humanos y las transiciones hacia ellas.