Solve socialspace. Then apply time.
To solve socialspace and apply time is to design the chronotope as a space-time framework where architecture steps back from being an imposing monument and becomes a supportive infrastructure for the unpredictable, beautiful, and ever-changing rhythms of human life.
The exact, verbatim quote by Demis Hassabis that laid out the founding manifesto for DeepMind is:
“Phase 1: Solve intelligence. Phase 2: Use that to solve everything else.”
He has repeated and expanded on this two-step mission statement since the early days of DeepMind’s founding, framing it as the company’s defining north star.
This methodology aligns with the heuristic approach for a simple contemplative system regarding social and cultural engagement on emerging topics.