Inside RingRing
A record of a changing world.
The companies building AI. The people experiencing it. Why we are starting a record we can return to, year after year.
A moment worth noticing
It is difficult to describe a transformation while you are living through it. What felt remarkable a few months ago can become an ordinary part of a working day. A tool changes, a habit follows, and the language we use to explain it begins to change too.
RingRing starts with a modest intention: pay attention to this moment before memory makes it tidier than it was. We want a record of the companies building AI and the people experiencing its arrival in everyday life. Both belong in the same story.
This record is not a prediction of who will win. It is a way to keep something of the present: the names, the questions, the hopes and the uncertainty.
Two ways to leave a trace
The Wall gives companies a place to put their logo and mark their presence in this chapter of technological change. A name on the Wall says something simple: we were here, building at this moment. Buying pixels supports the RingRing project.
Perspectives invites people to answer five questions about AI, society and being human. You can contribute as a founder, an employee, a student or simply as someone whose life is changing. Familiarity with the technology is not a condition for having something worth saying.
Sightings adds another kind of record: photographs of the companies and messages appearing on the streets. It keeps the everyday surroundings in view, alongside the ideas.
A record we return to
A single answer captures a moment. Returning to the same questions lets us notice movement. Something we once feared might become unremarkable. Something we barely considered might become important. We want to preserve those differences rather than replace earlier answers with a polished account of what we now believe.
Every year, we plan to publish the RingRing Annual Review: an analysis of the themes and changes emerging from contributions. Our first review is in preparation. It will describe what the contributions can tell us, and where their limits are.
The record begins with people who choose to take part. It cannot stand in for everyone. But it can preserve voices that might otherwise be lost in the speed of the conversation. That is a useful place to begin.