Aivolohko
Aivolohko is a fictional concept in Finnish speculative fiction describing a distributed, brain‑inspired computing and governance architecture intended to make cities more autonomous and responsive. The name blends aivo, meaning brain, with lohko, meaning block, to evoke a city organized as a single cognitive system built from interconnected modules. It has appeared in several near‑future novels and games since the early 2000s, where authors use it to explore the implications of advanced urban AI.
In the depicted model, the city is a cognitive organism composed of local processing nodes embedded in
Applications in fiction include traffic management, environmental monitoring, emergency response, and participatory budgeting. The discussion often
Aivolohko functions as a narrative device to probe how highly interconnected systems might shape governance, social