See It
A short prepared demonstration, often with one prompt or one example.
Curiosity Capability Atlas
Begin with what you want to explore.
Then discover what might help you question, find, learn, make, test, connect, or share it. You can also enter through a tool you have heard about and ask what new curiosities it opens.
I have a curiosity.
I heard about a tool.
I have an event idea.
I found a capability.
Try It
A guided activity using a prepared tool, source packet, template, or simple app.
Build It
A deeper event covering technique, code, APIs, testing, or production.
Fourteen ways in
Capabilities before companies.
The chapter titles use ordinary human goals. Vendors and products appear inside them so participants can connect the capability to names they have heard.
1A
Find Sources and Do the Legwork
Find the material. Leave the thinking to me.
Use AI and digital research tools as logistics assistants: search, locate, request, organize, and document candidate sources without automatically interpreting them.
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Think, Reason, Analyze, and Learn
Help me make sense of the material.
Choose AI assistance with interpretation: question, compare, explain, analyze, test ideas, and learn from a bounded set of material.
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Work With Your Own Sources and Notes
Help me explore what I have collected.
Build a bounded notebook or growing knowledge system around documents, websites, recordings, images, data, and human annotations.
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Write and Tell Stories
Help me find and shape the story.
Develop ideas, scripts, dialogue, oral histories, branching narratives, and revisions while preserving the difference between sources and invention.
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Make Images and Designs
Help me see the idea.
Generate, edit, explain, diagram, prototype, and prepare visual material for print, screens, stories, applications, and exhibitions.
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Make Music, Voices, and Sound
Help me turn an idea into something we can hear.
Create and edit music, narration, character voices, translation, ambience, sound effects, and source-grounded audio.
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Make Videos and Talking Characters
Help me make the idea move and speak.
Generate, animate, lip-sync, dub, edit, caption, and assemble moving images and synthetic presenters.
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Create Characters, Worlds, and Role-Play
Help me enter another perspective or imagined world.
Create persistent characters, lore, multi-character conversation, role-play, scenarios, and interactive worlds while keeping simulation distinct from testimony.
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Build Apps, Games, and Interactive Tools
Help me turn an idea into something that works.
Move from one-prompt experiments to tested applications, games, explanations, dashboards, and reusable software systems.
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Model, Simulate, and Experiment
Help me ask, What happens if...?
Represent a system, change assumptions, run experiments, observe feedback, and learn where a model helps—or misleads.
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Make 3D, Spatial, and Physical Things
Help me move from an idea to something with shape.
Generate and edit 3D objects, reconstruct places, design spatial experiences, fabricate models, and connect digital systems to physical devices.
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Observe, Map, and Explore the Physical World
Help me notice what is around me.
Collect and organize field observations, identify possibilities, map places and patterns, and combine personal evidence with public data.
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Automate Tasks and Connect Tools
Help me make several tools work together.
Move information, trigger actions, coordinate services or agents, and preserve approval, provenance, and recovery across a workflow.
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Share, Publish, and Preserve
Help me turn an experiment into something others can experience.
Publish websites, documents, audio, video, exhibits, and interactive artifacts while recording permissions, accessibility, versions, and preservation.
Open this capability →Recombine the map
The interesting part is often between chapters.
Workshop
Mash up capabilities
Start with a curiosity seed and combine sources, media, interaction, and trust boundaries.
DirectoryBrowse tools and vendors
Search the broad catalog by capability, company, depth, cost, and access.
GuideKeep people in charge
Ask what enters a tool, what remains human, and what must be sourced, consented, or preserved.