The Reality Construct: Digital Twins as Boundary-Spanning Artefacts for Knowledge Absorption, Organisational Evolution, and the Co-Authorship of Intended Futures

Position paper proposing that reality itself, emulated through interoperable digital twins, constitutes a boundary-spanning artefact with artefactual absorptive capacity. Introduces Reality Programmable Interfaces (RPIs), formalises the SMILE methodology, extends Weill and Broadbent (1998) NUDE framework to NUDEDA, and positions multi-agent simulation as the mechanism for co-authoring intended futures. Grounded in Actor-Network Theory, boundary objects, and benefits-driven IT governance.