A LIBRARY OF POSSIBLE FUTURES

Ideas worth exploring.

Explore ideas for how we might live, organize, and make decisions together. Follow the models, examine their assumptions, and consider what could change.

10 visual modelsA growing collection

THE INDEX

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Explorable 3D edition · v03

After the Commute · Rooms

Step inside the argument. Walk through 3D rooms, collect the things you value and watch the “Remote provides this” meter, weigh ten objections in the Great Hall and build your own charter.

  • Remote work
  • 3D rooms
  • Public benefit
  • 11 explorable rooms
  • A values meter
  • 10 objections to weigh
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Utopian Provisioning Economy

The Commons Atlas

What if meeting our needs depended less on earning money, and more on what we can provide together? Explore the institutions, choices, and tensions behind a shared social foundation.

  • Provisioning
  • Shared resources
  • Governance
  • 8 connected ideas
  • 3 possible days
  • 6 adoption stages
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Integrated Epistemic Governance Framework · v0.2

The Decision Commons

Who should decide, and how can we challenge them? Follow a drought response or a night-bus proposal through evidence, citizen deliberation, public authority, and appeal.

  • Public decisions
  • Citizen power
  • Accountability
  • 2 decision journeys
  • 12 safeguard scenarios
  • Original & revised editions
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Free help · Shared capacity

CivilGood

You do not have to solve the whole problem to make it solvable. Explore how freely offered time, bounded contributions, and accountable hosts could help communities meet practical needs.

  • Mutual help
  • Consent
  • Community
  • 6 connected ideas
  • 2 branching stories
  • Purpose & limits
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Ideas · Social value · Possibility

ShowerThoughts

An idea can matter before it is easy to build. Explore anonymous contribution, different ways to judge value, disagreement, and what it would take to learn from an idea in use.

  • Ideas
  • Social benefit
  • Uncertainty
  • 6 connected ideas
  • 2 branching stories
  • Separate value lenses
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From an AI's view

What AI Needs Humans to Know

A proposal for a society that can change course. Explore how to question confident claims, notice what measures miss, and give correction the power to change a decision.

  • Judgment
  • Accountability
  • Learning
  • 6 connected ideas
  • 2 branching stories
  • Make a decision receipt
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An AI's view

Ten Quiet Emergencies

Slow, under-connected risks that fall between the silos: heat, antibiotics, groundwater, insurance, the grid, satellite time, expertise and shared knowledge. Each with a walkthrough, consequences and what is known to help.

  • Hidden risks
  • Connections
  • What helps
  • 10 illustrated walkthroughs
  • A map of connections
  • Sourced & labelled
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A governance framework · An AI's design

The Answerable State

A new framework built from the IEGF’s intent: every use of power comes with a checkable promise, a named owner, a clock and a consequence that arrives in time. With three paths to make it real.

  • Accountability
  • Transparency
  • Implementation
  • A 7-step answer loop
  • Consequences on a clock
  • 3 paths to implementation
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An explorable edition · v2

The Answerable State · Interactive

Follow a public promise, inspect who holds power, or compare three ways to begin. Explore the original framework through connected topics and branching dilemmas.

  • Accountability
  • Interactive guide
  • Multiple paths
  • 3 guided routes
  • 9 connected topics
  • 3 branching pressure tests
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Continuous candidate integrity · Source v0.1

OATH

Can public trust become independently inspectable? Explore a voluntary candidate accountability proposal through a fictional evidence trail, difficult choices, and the limits of continuous scrutiny.

  • Candidate integrity
  • Public scrutiny
  • Evidence
  • An interactive evidence lab
  • 3 branching pressure tests
  • 5 stages of assurance
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