The Haudenosaunee Confederacy encoded something extraordinary into their governance: any decision of consequence should be evaluated by its effects on the seventh generation yet to come. Roughly 175 years. They’ve been applying this principle for a thousand years.
We currently plan for about four.
This visualization applies the same framework to three decisions: one already in the past (Oklahoma’s oil boom), one being made right now (how we deploy AI), and one being built deliberately with this framework in mind — Phoenix Wells, a project to convert Oklahoma’s 22,000 abandoned oil wells into geothermal energy infrastructure.
Read down any column to see how a single decision unfolds. Read across any row to see the pattern.