future+scenarios

=//**Future scenarios**//=

This component of the Systemsplace wiki is intended to be used as a collaborative space for developing a series of future scenarios using distinct systems architectures. Initial discussions on this work have taken place here.

The work is inspired by the four scenarios presented by Robert Costanza in his Conservation Ecology paper. Although useful, the need was recognised to provide a stronger alignment of scenarios with distinct systems architectures, while trying to minimise some of the explicit bias favouring particular scenarios.

Scenario template
The template for describing each scenario could include:

-- scenario name. Something catchy and short which could be used to instantly convey a futuristic "vision" for that particular scenario.

-- systems architecture. A description of the systemic structures of such a scenario, including network graph, decision-making structures, etc.

-- systems behaviour. A description of the behavioural properties emerging as a result of the systems architecture.

-- scenario narrative. A clean and distinctive narrative which brings to life the systems architecture, including a description of the relative **advantages** and **disadvantages** of such an architecture.

-- links. A list of external sources supporting the narrative, including news stories.

**Scenarios**
hierarchical