About Dan & fournel.org
Short version: I’m Dan, a curious generalist based in British Columbia who works in technology by day and plays with history, timelines, and speculative futures in my spare time.
fournel.org is my personal research and experiment lab. It’s where I stash long-range scenario work, deep-time timelines, and notes that don’t quite fit anywhere else.
What I’m interested in
Long-range thinking
- How today’s choices show up in 10, 50, or 100 years.
- World order, regional blocs, and possible paths to greater cooperation.
- Scenarios that mix realism with just enough science fiction to be fun.
Technology & infrastructure
- Deep-time technology arcs (see Technology Timeline).
- Practical IT, networks, automation, and tools people actually use.
- Human–AI collaboration and how it reshapes everyday work.
History & religion
- Patterns in empires, federations, collapses, and reform movements.
- Comparative religious history and long-run ethical frameworks.
- How past spiritual and political experiments can inform future ones.
Local & personal
- British Columbia as a real place with real constraints and opportunities.
- Family, community, and how big-picture ideas filter down to daily life.
- Using small experimental projects to learn faster.
How the pages fit together
If you’re trying to make sense of what’s here, this is roughly how I think about the different pages:
- home.htm – Portal into the whole site.
- history.htm – Long-run historical events and eras.
- tech.htm – Technology through deep time.
- religion.htm – Religious timelines and context.
- future.htm – Hub for future scenarios.
- ww3.htm – One specific high-stakes conflict scenario.
- bahai.htm – Long-range Bahai-inspired world-order scenario.
- index.htm – The “front door” for the site.
Contact / elsewhere
This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. You can usually find the code and changes at:
github.com/fourneld-boop/fournel.org
If you know me in real life and want to chat about any of this, you already know how to reach me. Otherwise, GitHub is the simplest way to open an issue or suggest tweaks.