The Architecture
A six-layer governance architecture for narrative systems — specified in a doctoral program between 2013 and 2016, validated when the technology industry independently built every component without the democratic governance layer.
Temporal Validation
Every component the MOCSIE architecture specified — crowd-sourced ingestion, structured metadata, algorithmic retrieval, human-feedback calibration, emergent communities — was independently built by the technology industry without the democratic governance layer. Remove any single layer from the architecture, and you get a failure mode you will recognize from today's headlines: algorithmic bias audits that correct symptoms while the machinery produces the next one, Senate hearings where seven witnesses each bring a hammer and nobody brings an architecture, corporate ethics boards that govern downstream outputs while upstream classification goes unexamined.
Six Functional Layers
The twelve units of Owning Citizens Dreams derive six functional layers of governance architecture, each demonstrated as necessary through integration tests — the recognizable failure modes that emerge when any single layer is removed. Twenty-two requirements accumulate across these layers, each earned through analysis rather than asserted.
The complete specification, the 22-requirement reference, the Juggler credentialing framework, and the temporal validation archive are forthcoming on this page.
This page is under construction. The full MOCSIE specification will be published here as a navigable, citable web reference. In the meantime, the complete derivation is available in Owning Citizens Dreams, and the temporal validation evidence is documented in the IGI Global chapter and 2013–2016 publications referenced in the textbook.— mocsie.ai will redirect here when the standalone site is built.