This is the story of software objects living in a space-time continuum, where design and runtime activities are causally connected. Tracing their adventures gives new insights and draws the big picture of the Darwinian fable we all live in.

The addressed problems involve data and application co-evolution. The audience will travel in space and time through the evolutionary process of an emerging and experimental self-made system, meant to let power users build data-driven web applications without technical skills. Runtime and design activities are merged and the system never stops. At each bus stop, new bold requirements are integrated in the application and the environment itself. Changes are impacted through the whole running system, down to its atoms. Both the application and the environment are continually enhanced. Their common log uncovers the DNA of a sustainable software environment. Instant jump back in time shows initial versions of data and earlier development stages of the application and the environment. Trace pattern mining stimulates insight, new ideas and better ways to rebuild the system. Changing the past is tempting, but this could alter the timeline and change the course of the history, including the mindset of the audience.

Keywords: meta-design, traceability, causality, time machine, cloud.