Maps have always done more than represent geography.  They reveal their creator’s way of seeing the world, and they portray our relationships to one another. They represent a specific time and place, within the context of specific politics and seats of power.  We use them not only to know where we’ve been, but also to find where we want to go.  For nearly a millennia, maps have helped us locate ourselves in the physical world, but mapping ourselves—our minds, human knowledge, and behavior—has proven even more challenging.  The Human Genome Project, fMRI brain imaging, and Alphabet’s ambition “to organize the world’s information” have created oceans of data with very few ways to effectively navigate it.  Even at a personal level, our digital ecosystems have become enormously complex, spreading across platforms, media, and applications.  Our online life spans devices, workplaces, relationships, and decades worth of data.  Our organizations are a patchwork of legacy systems, various data formats, and information architectures.  Organizational charts change, employees come and go, businesses merge and are acquired, spun-off, off-shored, and globalized. We’re left drowning in bits and bytes, with no way to transform data into knowledge.  We need a map, but not the types maps that we’re accustomed to.  We need maps of shifting semantic territories and rhyzomatic connections; we need to explore emergent patterns and nomadic entities. Fyberloom is an attempt at creating this new type of map. 

Fyberloom’s LiveMap [Atlas, LiveMaps] is dynamic, continually changing as you interact with it.  It can follow your lead, but it can also lead you, as its semantic engine reveals unseen connections and unexpected relationships.  With fyberloom, you can define your context (e.g. work, friendships, as specific year, marketing, etc.) and go down the roads less (and more) traveled.  You'll see patterns as they emerge across different media, platforms, and applications, or across communities, organizations, dates, and places [Briefing Book, Projects, LiveMap Schema (Mind Map)]. Additionally, you can keep your knowledge completely private or choose to share it with your organization, community, or interested parties [Our Pledge to You].  

So, what is fyberloom? A search tool, a website, a platform, or an OS? Is it an information architecture, semantic engine, or knowledge graph? 

Fyberloom is a dynamic atlas of digital worlds.  As the loom was among the first computing machines, planting the seed of our information age at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, so fyberloom weaves data into knowledge, representing a new way to relate to information. Fyberloom offers a new way to explore the "terra incognita" of zettabytes of data.  (Read More: Atlas)

Welcome to the new Age of Exploration. 

Welcome to fyberloom!