Arnott (developer of SoundSelf) proposes “technodelic” as the name for a category of digital experiences that function like psychedelics or ritual: using sound, image, and interaction design to dissolve the ego-boundary between user and system, facilitating states of expanded awareness, presence, and altered cognition. The manifesto argues that this is not a niche novelty but a genuine design frontier — one that reclaims digital media as a vehicle for the kinds of transformative experience previously associated with psychoactive substances, meditation, and ceremony.
OM cites this as one horizon of the emerging technology landscape where the political stakes of cognitive sovereignty are directly at issue: technodelic interfaces could either be designed as tools for genuine experiential autonomy (open protocols for consciousness alteration) or as sophisticated capture mechanisms that simulate liberation while conditioning compliance. The technodelic as an open protocol versus as a control technology is a live design question.