The sad truth is that we build software systems that are hard to change, and when we change them, they break. As usual, it's because we've forgotten that our forebears have invented the building blocks we need to build living systems: actors and hypermedia. Actors - objects done right - allow us to model resources as living, independent, concurrent things. Hypermedia enables dynamic, organic systems by providing a generic mechanism for creating associations between the live resources and presenting choices for state transitions to clients. In this talk, I'll combine the two and show how you can build living systems using hypermedia actors. To compensate for using old ideas to fix today's problems, I'll use modern technology for the implementation.