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Futurisca A computational laboratory for the future

What changed

Every release, what it added and what it fixed.

2.0.2 September 2026

  • The world state is now printed into the page itself, so the simulator is already holding it when the page finishes loading and never has to ask the server for it. The first load cannot be broken by permalink rules, a security plugin or a firewall any more.
  • If a request does fail, the screen says what to do about it and lists what each road actually answered, instead of showing a parser error.
  • The site has been redesigned: a new typographic system, a deeper palette with a warm second accent, a full bleed data strip, and sections that arrive as you reach them.
  • Seven new pages: who uses it, a scenario library, what it is not, a glossary, questions, a roadmap, and a clearer separation between the product pages and the reference ones.
  • A new mark and tab icon, drawn from the accent colour rather than uploaded.
  • Fixed: the hero globe never drew, because its script loaded before the geometry it needs.
  • Fixed: sections that arrive on scroll stayed invisible on a page where the script had not run.

2.0.1 September 2026

  • Fixed: on sites where WordPress had not rebuilt its permalink rules, or where a security plugin blocks /wp-json, the simulator answered with a page instead of data and refused to load. It now falls back to a second route that is always reachable, and says what to do if both fail.
  • Fixed: the page holding the simulator kept the theme's own header and styling while every other page was dark. It now wears the same header, menu and layout as the rest of the site, with a switch to turn that off.
  • The permalink rules are rebuilt on activation, so the very first load works.

2.0.0 September 2026

  • Every country on earth: 238 countries and territories, up from 73, each with a provenance mark.
  • Real country geometry. A choropleth flat map and a 3D globe with horizon clipping, drag to rotate, day and night shading.
  • A world monitor: every country in one sortable table, leaderboards, alliance groupings, country profiles and live open data feeds.
  • Four new levers: carbon price, water stress, trade agreements and debt restructuring, plus AI compute as a controllable good.
  • Coalitions. A tariff, control or sanctions package can be imposed by an entire bloc at once, and the engine weights the load by the share of world output imposing it.
  • Renewable share, emissions, water stress, connectivity and nuclear status now feed the model rather than sitting in a table.
  • Written briefings from your own runs, through a model provider you configure, with a monthly cap and a choice of who may spend it.
  • Full width layout, and a public site plugin that builds the home, pricing, method and legal pages.
  • Fixed: a sanctions package used to register against the country imposing it, which cratered the sender's currency.
  • Fixed: the trade matrices were shared between runs, so a previous scenario's tariff wall could still be standing in the next one.

1.0.0 September 2026

  • First release: 73 economies, 23 levers, Monte Carlo ensemble with common random numbers, branch clustering, exact causal decomposition, scenario comparison and the confidence page.