By Futurist Thomas Frey
The Deed That Doesn’t Ask Questions
Pull out your property deed. Look at the chain of title.
It probably goes back 50 years. Maybe 100 if you’re lucky. It shows who you bought it from, who they bought it from, perhaps one or two transfers before that.
Then it stops.
The title company certified that the seller had legal right to sell. The transaction was recorded. The deed is valid. Case closed.
But a maximally curious AI asks the question the deed doesn’t: Who owned it before them? And before them? And before them?
Every piece of property on Earth has a complete history stretching back thousands of years. Every asset was claimed, transferred, inherited, bought, sold, conquered, or stolen at some point.
We’ve just never traced those chains all the way back.
Until now.
Continue reading… “Part 4 – The Whole Earth Ownership Project: Who Owned It Before Them?”