Surface vs. Depth
The internet is often conceptualized as a flat surface (the screen, the page). The My-Sea-Loom layer forces a vertical perspective. Just as the ocean has the photic zone (where light penetrates) and the aphotic zone (eternal darkness), digital space has surface web and deep web.
Infrastructure is dimensional. The surface is turbulent, fashion-driven, and fast (waves). The depths are stable, slow, and massive (thermohaline currents). A system designed only for the surface will be crushed by the pressure of the depths.
Lighting the Depths
In the deep ocean, 90% of organisms are bioluminescent. They do not rely on the sun; they generate their own light. Deep infrastructure must do the same. It cannot rely on external validation or visibility to function. It must practice self-generated legibility—documenting itself, explaining itself, and signaling its status through the darkness.
Abyssal Time
Surface currents move fast. Deep ocean currents take 1,000 years to cycle the globe. This is Abyssal Time. Myceloom asks us to build systems that operate on this timescale—infrastructure that outlasts the frantic cycles of the "new" and settles into the long, slow work of varying civilization.