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Paper short abstract

When AI, algorithm, and blockchain become the core of mega-engineering, the world is reshaped into optimizable datcompressing engineering imagination in pursuit of efficiency. Wisdom requires preserving an “unmodelable wilderness”，including ecological wisdom, cultural logic, and ethical judgment .

Paper long abstract

When AI, algorithms, and blockchain converge as the foundational grammar of mega-engineering, humanity is undergoing a fundamental reconstruction of existence. Super-projects—from energy grids and hydraulic systems to space exploration and biomedicine—are being transformed from material practices into philosophical apparatuses of world-making. Blockchain provides a transparent institutional framework, algorithms embed optimized decision-making, and AI enables self-evolving agency. Under this framework, nature is systematically rendered programmable: river basin management becomes real-time algorithmic optimization, gene editing evolves into life encoding via smart contracts, and space exploration is restructured as resource rights allocation on-chain.

Yet this digital-metaphysical practice is marked by profound dialectical tensions. Blockchain creates a "myth of transparency". Consequently, the governance paradigm of mega-engineering risks reducing engineering rationality into a system that sanctifies efficiency and preaches computability, while reducing ethics to protocol and justice to access.More critically, this process systematically expels existential diversity: ecological complexity, cultural heterogeneity, human contradictions, and spiritual transcendence are increasingly dismissed as "technical noise." Simultaneously, through open-source protocols, standardized architectures, and consensus mechanisms, mega-engineering perpetuates cognitive-level technological colonization globally, constraining late-developing nations from shaping the philosophical foundations and value hierarchies of technology.Thus, We argues that the core crisis of the mega-engineering era lies not in the risk of engineering failure, but in the expulsion of the uncomputable. Beyond the temple of code, we must preserve an ungovernable wilderness. True engineering ethics must embrace ontological humility: while constructing digital temples, we must forever preserve inviolable space for all that refuses to be engineered.