Planting new concepts

Klang is making no bones of the idea that

Seed has real-world social relevance. The game’s website has a Theory section where you can find essays on transhumanism, solar system colonisation and the Doomsday clock – most of them glorified blog posts, but a promising show of the range of ideas in play. Klang has also sought out the insights of Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig. A long-time proponent of US electoral reform, Lessig has argued that MMO communities can serve as useful case studies for constitutional scholars, especially when carried out at great scale. He has suggested, optimistically, that

Seed will provide an environment free of the entrenched interests and power structures that otherwise constrain public conversations about politics.