The map as we know it has been conquered, no territory lies undiscovered, no region unchartered. Power no longer lies with Lord of the Manor but with the Librarian, the one holding the keys to information. The problem is information has gone beyond being a one-way avenue, we Web 2.0 now, everyone and no one holds the keys. The time for design dictation is over and the time for the web to be laid to pave the way for constantly mutating, fungal design has come.

Piracy is good. Take the music industry, all of the most important innovations (and renovations) of the last 50+ years have been due to piracy; Radio1, hip-hop, the remix, jungle, iTunes and more besides all owe their creation to pirates. By playing outside the law pirates are often able to get things done quicker and more effectively, this then becomes the law, new pirates operate outside these laws and the cycle repeats.

There is no possession, only creation and mutation. Once created, release – for to hold dear your own ideas would stand in the way of progress. Pirates and tricksters can see avenues and opportunities that you can’t; they are ready to deconstruct, reconstruct, remix, dissemble and hack your creations. Let them.

Inhabit the space of others. Occupy as many enclaves and exclaves as you can. People already exist in networks and share information within them. There is no need to create new webs and worry about attracting members, engage in theirs.

Don’t belong. Be trickster, edge movements are where it’s at. As both information and your creations mutates, be prepared to cross boundaries between medium, message and virtual location.

Code can create images ever in flux. Why choose static or predetermined movement when you can have interactive, (and/or) constantly up to date information? The time will come when the desktop publisher will be confined to the archives, sat in a room filed alongside the dubplate cutter.¹

There is no waste. Data is invisible, it doesn’t take up physical space. Environmentalists should all turn to code², the series of 0s and 1s aren’t filling up any landfills. Duplication takes next to no time at all, once the virus spreads there is in fact no way getting rid of it. How can you get rid of something in so many places at once that doesn’t actually exist?

If everyone thinks they are a designer, let them believe it. In code and open source if someone wants pink, serif type they can have it for themselves. You cannot stay precious to your creation, as it mutates it will get dirty and it will get ugly. You could spend all the time in the world balancing interactivity and beauty but someone is only going to hack it anyway.