cranny /ˈkræni/ noun
A small, narrow space or opening, the kind you find in every nook and cranny.
A small space for the biggest idea there is. A real word, six letters, on .si, which now reads as SI: superintelligence.
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100 mOne metre. A person leaning in to look. The orange square is the cranny, and it stays lit all the way out.
107 mThe Earth. Ten thousand kilometres. The cranny is now far too small to draw at this scale; we keep it lit anyway.
1013 mThe solar system. Neptune’s orbit, about nine billion kilometres across. Light takes eight hours to cross it.
1021 mThe Milky Way. A hundred billion stars or more, and the cranny is out on one of the minor arms.
1027 mThe observable universe. About 93 billion light-years across. Every observable universe is centred on whoever is looking. This one is centred on a cranny.
cranny /ˈkræni/ noun
A small, narrow space or opening, the kind you find in every nook and cranny.
Superintelligence may be the largest thing anyone has set out to build. It will still need a name you can say in one breath, type in one go and remember after hearing once. cranny.si is an ordinary English word for a tucked-away space, on the two letters that now read as SI. A small name that could hold something vast.
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