The WTF Awards / sketching a map to an escape from steam engine time

The myopic utility- and profit-oriented nature of markets funnels us into a world where monoculture & path dependence turns technological development into endless deja-vu. In my previous article on this subject, I recommended counteracting these forces through a proliferation of small-scale independent contests designed to reward absence of apparent utility. In this one, I would like to present a sketch or prototype of what such a contest’s ruleset would look like.