The Technology & Balance Accord
The rise of resonance energy, automation, and planetary industry required a new covenant between invention and restraint. The Technology and Balance Accord was drafted to prevent innovation from eclipsing ethics. It framed progress as stewardship, not domination.
It created federative councils to evaluate emergent technologies for civic and ecological consequence, balancing curiosity with conscience. Discovery was to serve human equilibrium, never replace it.
This accord defined Koina’s modern scientific ethos: that mastery is measured not by control, but by preservation. It remains the guidepost for all invention — that no creation is worth the cost of compassion.
The Technology & Balance Accord
Preamble
The centuries after The Communication Accord brought wonders beyond the dreams of our ancestors. Machines multiplied human labor, harnessed energy lit cities by night, and new vehicles carried people farther and faster than ever before. Yet with these wonders came dangers: smoke that blackened skies, engines that threatened to serve war as well as peace, and the temptation to bind invention not to the common good but to profit and power. The Council asked: if knowledge is sacred, how shall we guard its fruits so that they do not consume their keepers? Thus was forged the Technology & Balance Accord, that invention may serve life and not its ruin.Article I – On the Commons of Innovation
All discoveries of profound significance — in energy, health, transport, or communication — shall belong to the commons of Koina. No cooperative, guild, or individual may claim monopoly over that which sustains the lives of all. Patents may reward inventors with honor and stewardship, but the knowledge itself shall be shared freely, preserved in every repository, and taught in every House of Knowledge.Article II – On the Boundaries of Application
It is agreed that technologies devised to enrich life must never be twisted into tools of conquest or extermination. The design, building, and use of engines of war beyond personal defense are forbidden. The Council shall review and censure any invention whose purpose is destruction, for to preserve wisdom is meaningless if civilization itself is imperiled.Article III – On Equitable Energy
The discovery of wireless electricity, the harnessing of water, wind, and sun, and the use of magnetic rails are to be celebrated as gifts of balance. These forces shall not be hoarded nor withheld, but made available to every cooperative, rich and poor alike. In this way, no people shall sit in darkness while another is bathed in light, nor shall progress widen the gulf between nations.Article IV – On the Balance of Labor and Machine
Machines shall serve humanity, not replace its dignity. It is agreed that labor-saving devices must not cast entire peoples into poverty, but instead free them for learning, art, and stewardship. The Council urges every cooperative to establish systems of retraining, so that as new crafts arise, none are left idle or forgotten. Balance is not merely in nature, but in the place of each human within society.Article V – On Global Infrastructure
Certain works, by their scale and necessity, are declared to be cooperative endeavors: airship hubs, magnetic railways, communication networks, and Houses of Healing. These projects, funded by shared contribution, stand above the pride of any one people. To build together is to bind together; to neglect shared responsibility is to weaken all.Closing
Thus the Technology & Balance Accord was established, proclaiming that invention without restraint is peril, and invention shared with balance is strength. By these principles, the peoples of Koina stepped into the modern age not as rivals, but as collaborators, ensuring that the fruits of progress would enrich life without consuming it. In this covenant, the hammer and loom, the engine and spark, all became instruments not of war but of harmony.
Type
Decree, Governmental
Ratification Date
10 Maat 2100 zc
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