temporal-projection

name	temporal-projection
description	View problem from 5yr/50yr/500yr future, backcast to generate temporally-informed creative solutions.
execution	strategy
dependencies	{"sops":["perspective-synthesis","time-machine"]}

Temporal Projection

View problem from 5yr/50yr/500yr future, backcast to generate temporally-informed creative solutions.

State Ledger

Resource	Target	Current	%
web-search	20	0	0%
web-research	8	0	0%
paper-overview	20	0	0%
paper-search	12	0	0%
paper-research	5	0	0%

HARD-GATE

Cannot exit strategy until ≥80% of each budget line is consumed OR yield targets are met with justification for remaining budget.

Available Tactics

Tactic	Role
evaluation-filtering	Filter and rank resulting ideas (shared)

Available SOPs

SOP	Role
time-machine	Project to specific time horizons
perspective-synthesis	Synthesize temporal insights

Execution Guidance

1. Near future (5yr): What's the obvious trajectory? What incremental improvements matter?
2. Medium future (50yr): What paradigm shifts are possible? What's obsolete?
3. Far future (500yr): What's the problem even about at civilizational scale?
4. Backcast: From each future, what must be true NOW for that future to arrive?
5. Extract: What insights from backcasting suggest novel present-day actions?

Minimum Yield

Metric	Floor
Time horizons explored	≥3
Backcast paths generated	≥3
Novel present-day actions identified	≥5
Paradigm shift insights	≥2

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
perspective-synthesis	Synthesize all perspective outputs into a structured multi-perspective idea report.
time-machine	Temporal projection — view a solution from future/past time horizons to generate temporally-informed insights.