Personal Home Page · Dan Fournel

Welcome to my corner of spacetime.

I’m a SF and history buff based in British Columbia, working at the intersection of technology, science, small-scale experiments, long-range future scenarios, religious study, and deep-time historical timelines. This site collects projects, notes, and speculative worlds I’m currently exploring.

The Shape of Time

Most of this site is about timelines, but timelines are just one way of drawing time. Below are a few perspectives that sit quietly behind the scenarios and histories here.

Time can feel like an arrow, a circle, or a branching tree. Timelines lean toward the arrow: one thing after another. History often suggests circles: patterns that repeat with different actors and technologies. And speculative futures are almost always branching trees – many possibilities growing out of the same trunk.

“Time is the moving image of eternity.”
— Plato, Timaeus

Philosophers and storytellers have fought with time for a long while. Is it a real dimension like space, or a way our brains keep events from blurring together? When you lay history, technology, religion, science, and future scenarios side by side, each field answers that question slightly differently.

“The present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
— C. S. Lewis

Science fiction adds another twist: futures are not predictions, they’re experiments. Each scenario on this site is a kind of thought laboratory – asking, “If these forces continue or collide, what kinds of worlds might emerge, and what would it feel like to live there?”

“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”
— William Gibson

As you read, you’re invited to treat time not as a fixed track, but as a design space. Every page here – whether it’s about stone tools, Skynet, alien contact, or Bahai-inspired world order – is really asking one question: given where we’ve been, what kind of future do we want to build next?