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Gen WA\
Not a birth year. A crossing. Gen WA\ is anyone who moves from user to citizen, from renting a life online to owning one.
Elders and the young stand on one bridge. Each carries what the other needs, so nothing piles up at the top.
The lens
A generation by crossing
Generations are usually named for when people were born. This one is named for what they do. The crossing has three stages, and the change takes time.
Caterpillar
RentingYou're a user, a consumer, a subscriber. Your life online is rented.
Cocoon
GatheringYour logins, your content and one daily check-in. A cube set up around you. A circle on the map.
Monarch
FlyingA circle you planted. A life that runs on what you own. Some go on to guide others as Sherpas.
One bridge
Two directions
Wealth and wisdom tend to pile up at the top and stay there. Gen WA\ runs them across a bridge instead.
The long view
Wisdom, wealth and the memory of what was tried before. You walk with someone who has climbed ahead.
The new tools
Vitality, vision and fluency with what just arrived. In time you are that help for someone else.
2030 is on every calendar: the climate deadlines, the development goals, the forecasts for machines smarter than we are. Fold 13.8 billion years into one year, as Sagan did, and each second holds 437 years. On that calendar 2030 is 7 milliseconds away. It doesn't have to arrive as a cliff. It doesn't have to wait. For anyone on the bridge, it can start today.
WA\ through this lens
What each generation gets
- The citizen
- A person who has verified they are human and owns their own ground. Age is not the test. The crossing is.
- The family record
- Every generation leaves a record, and most of ours sits on platforms. Metamorphosis brings it home through each platform's official export, and your Book of Life keeps it in your name. Nothing is shared without your yes.
- The circle
- Families, ʻohana, schools, gyms, churches, run clubs. Circles are free to join. No fees, no dues. A desire to be healthy, wealthy and wise is the only requirement.
- The currency
- Where a like stood, there is LUX: “one human letting another human know that i am rooting for you.” A Drop is a post that ripples. A Seed is growth that compounds.
- Phone and portal
- WA\ lives on the phone. WA\WA\ is the portal on any computer, where the whole Book reads at full size and a site gets edited. One record, kept in sync, readable by a grandchild and a grandparent.
- The ladder
- The Tree of Life: Roots $9 a month or $108 a year. Self $333. Seed $1,111. Sapling $3,333. Sequoia from $5,555. Sapphire $99 a month. Star and Serene free, forever. You pay for the next rung only when the last one produced.
- The promise
- A person checks the work: GOOD AS GOLD. No ads, ever. You can leave at any time and take all of it with you.
One thing to do this week
Cross with someone
Pick one person a generation away from you, older or younger. Sit down together for an hour.
- Write down the six things for each of you: domain, code, data, list, logins, media.
- Mark each one owned or rented.
- Trade one thing you know for one thing they know.
The first steps of the whole network are the same move at scale: 108 citizens running circles by the end of 2026, and 108,000 by the end of 2027.
The first 108
Become a founding citizen
The first 108 citizens will be the Cosmopolitans, the founding citizens of the cosmOS. They cross free, with Self waived. Early access opens one circle at a time, from Maui.
Free to start. Pay as you grow. Earn as you learn.
Read next
Sources, read 31 October 2026. Carl Sagan's year, about 437 years to a second for 13.8 billion years: Cosmic Calendar · The voyage, the circles and the first steps, as set out on this site's Learn and Book pages · The line on LUX, as given on the home page.