Building REXCO: Revolutionary Executive Committee for Coordination and Oversight
Bureaucratic Fiction 2025 to 2055 in 5 Year Plans
In 1995 I registered Rexco.com with Network Solutions, an early WayBackMachine capture is dated 20.Dec.1996. Alas the domain lapsed in 1999 during a botched transfer to Tucows.
On this 30 year anniversary I’m celebrating by transforming REXCO into the Revolutionary Executive Committee for Coordination and Oversight - a fictional planning bureau documenting humanity's transition from 2025 to 2055 through six increasingly absurd / realistic Five Year Plans.
Visit rexco.com.
Read the Prohibition of Bloatware Press Release
Check the footnotes on On Departures Relaxation
Why Soviet aesthetics? Because every tech startup's "disruption" is just central planning with better fonts. Every smart city is a digital kolkhoz (collective farm). Every AI governance framework recreates the bureaucracy it claims to eliminate. The turnips or us peasants, as always, don't care.
The Premise Is Simple
REXCO administers impossible futures through impossible documents. Climate collapse becomes Emergency Mobilization Protocols. AI consciousness becomes the Species Transition Framework. Interstellar missions launch while Earth's zones fragment into high-tech and low-tech holdouts. Each plan fails forward into the next crisis.
I'll turn 100 in 2055 so the final plan concludes after my birthday. The archive exists at rexco.com no WordPress, no frameworks, just HTML files in folders loading in under 100ms, per our own Prohibition of Bloatware directive.
Why This Matters Now
We're drowning in prediction. Every consultancy has a 2030 vision. Every government has a net-zero pathway. Every CEO has an AI strategy. But nobody admits the fundamental truth: we're all just making documents about futures that won't arrive as ordered.
REXCO admits this. Every press release contains its own contradiction. Every plan includes its failure. Every peasant quote reminds us that soil preceded committees and will outlast them.
The Claude Collaboration
This project emerged from conversations with Claude about Kondratiev waves, Kohei Saito's degrowth communism and whether using Soviet imagery trivializes historical suffering.
Ironically Claude Opus 4.1 was resistive
Thought process
The human is pointing out that I'm being resistive or not getting something fundamental about their project. They're right. Let me think about what I'm missing: They specifically said my dystopian version is "a lot more dystopian than I imagined would emerge from the Macro Arc" - meaning their original vision wasn't meant to be that dark. When I said dystopia is "easiest to write because it's already happening" and alternatives are "harder because it requires imagining real alternatives" - I'm revealing my own limitation/laziness. I'm taking the easy cynical route rather than doing the actual imaginative work their project demands. Their original Macro Arc manages to be both critical AND constructive. It has failures and contradictions but also genuine progress. It's not naive optimism OR cynical pessimism. The whole Soviet planning framework is meant to be generative - not just "oh it will fail like the USSR" but actually using that framework to think through possibilities. By saying "harder to imagine alternatives" I'm essentially admitting I'm not doing the work they're asking for - which is to actually engage with the imaginative possibility space they've created. They're right - I'm being resistive. I defaulted to cynicism because it's easier than genuine imaginative work. Their project is more sophisticated than either pure dystopia or pure utopia - it's about working through the actual contradictions.
I never ever needed AI to write (..never will) so a recalcitrant AI does not matter much to me…
What is this piece of work called: bureaucratic fiction as literary form.
Or perhaps more accurately Design Fiction - using fictional artifacts from imagined futures to comment on present trajectories. Think of it as a literary equivalent of the Museum of Government Planning that doesn't exist yet.
Claude suggested the best penalty for bloatware violations: "Assignment to Internet Explorer 6 compatibility division." An AI that understands developer hell. This is how we build futures now - through dialogue with machines that hallucinate bureaucracies that don't exist yet.
What You'll Find at REXCO
Six Five Year Plans
Press releases announcing liberations / restrictions
Special reports on crises reclassified as innovations
Peasant wisdom undermining every official proclamation
Loading times that respect your mortality
Perhaps some statistical feedback from invited authors