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The Orrery of Futures

A Renaissance astrolabe rendered as a modern instrument: concentric dials of time — now, one year, three, ten — with every verified finding, signal, and hype flag in the cabinet plotted as a point of light. Drag to spin it. It is real data in three dimensions; the scenario engine that will compose these into futures is the v1 build described below.

Orrery of Futures · drag to spin · 143 signals plotted

What it becomes

the engine, in three movements — v1
the instrument is live · the engine is scoped, not yet built

Today the Orrery plots what we've verified. In v1 — after the live graph and BKG revenue — it gains the engine, in three movements:

  1. Scenario engine. Pick a domain and a horizon; compose verified signals and theses into 2–4 divergent, internally-consistent scenarios — each with its confidence and its falsifier. Prediction.
  2. Intervention sandbox. Test levers against a scenario: build X, partner with Y, price at Z — predicted effect and side effects. Prescription — the half most foresight skips.
  3. Dreams into action. Turn the chosen path into a draft bet on the Bet Board, pre-filled with owner slot, value estimate, the smallest real experiment, and the killer signal.

Building the engine now would pull engineering off the BKG P0, which the Constitution (LD-02) forbids. The shape is locked; the wiring waits. Meanwhile, see how today's findings already connect on The Connections.