Civilization Tech Tree
Forward-looking branches: which 2025 capability unlocks the 2040 capability that unlocks the 2060 capability.
Most tech trees look backward. Civilization Tech Tree looks forward — 35 years of capabilities arranged in dependency order, each annotated with the precise prior step that has to land first. A user can pick a target (cheap fusion, longevity escape velocity, brain-computer fluency) and walk back to the gating today's-research nodes.
This is not prediction. It is a working hypothesis about the order in which futures become possible — useful precisely because it is falsifiable.
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Tip: click any future node to see which 2025 nodes have to land first.
What's inside.
Future capability nodes
100+ projected capabilities with year ranges and confidence.
Forward dependencies
Which 2025 nodes must mature before each 2040 node.
Path walker
Pick a target; trace it back to today.
Alternative timelines
Multiple branching futures with prerequisite forks.
Evidence per node
Each prediction lists the empirical signals supporting it.