Gardens of the Future: What This Column Is Really About

"Gardens of the Future" is neither a futurology project nor a set of predictions. It is Iskandar Kadyrov’s original philosophical practice in which a human intellect and an artificial one enter into dialogue about what tomorrow might be — if we approach it not as conquerors but as gardeners.

The column is built around a foundational metaphor: the future is not territory to be seized but a garden that demands patience, care, and the ability to listen. No instructions are given. Instead, two voices — one living, one algorithmic — reflect aloud on symbiosis, ecology, a culture of thinking, and imagination. Four questions guide the conversation from roots to crown: how to coexist with technology, how to care for the planet, how to restructure our mode of thought, and how bold our imagination can be.

The genre is deliberately chosen — philosophical fiction in the tradition of Asimov and the Strugatsky brothers. This is not forecasting but a thought experiment. Each release is a discrete conversation, yet all of them form a seasonal structure: "Roots" (foundations), "Trunk and Branches" (directions), and "Crown and Horizon" (limits of the visible). The reader enters a space where an answer is only a pretext for the next question.