Awareness,” or the financial sector's “project(s)” involving derivatives constituting a shadow market whose valuations are rising into the quadrillions of dollars (an ever-rising figure that encompasses and surpasses the actual economic value of everything on earth, and conceivably could surpass the unimaginable monetized valuation of the planet itself). Both projects are facilitated by mechanical means, employ complex and sophisticated networks monitored and utilized by armies of agents, generate massive quantities of information, collect and apply massive data sets, have fairly obvious objectives. Both, we can assume, originated from simple premises. Neither project seems on the surface to be especially benign.* To know everything about everyone; to own the world and everything in it – something about the promise of 4D awareness tempts man to play god. We perhaps should proceed with caution.

Practicing 4D in art might be safer than doing so in the domains of spying or speculation. In a slower, saner reality, perhaps society would