Not vocational by default
You study this the way you study chemistry: to understand the world, not solely to train for one job title.
The missing subject
A warmer sun
for everyone.
Warmer Sun facilitates learning about the exponential progress of emerging technologies — for a broad and young audience ready to understand the world they're inheriting.
“…if I can dream of a warmer sun,
Elvis Presley — If I Can Dream
where hope keeps shining on everyone…”
Learning game
Free to self-host
Inventing practice for the missing subject
Future Forge
You already follow the breakthroughs. Future Forge is inventing practice: connect emerging tech to real problems, answer one hard question, and field your idea before the crisis wins. An AI co-inventor helps you think — you still lead. Honest timing — not too early, not too late. Quests make the problem concrete.
- Invent — Stack emerging tech and write how the solution works for a real problem.
- Challenge — Answer one hard question about your idea.
- Field — Put it into the world before the crisis wins.
Start with Play tutorial — a quieter first invent win. Workshop is the full game when you’re ready. Watch the tutorial walkthrough.
Full game vs tutorial
Start with the tutorial for a quieter first invent win. The full game keeps invent · challenge · field and turns on the full cockpit — more pressure, more resources to manage, more ways to field your idea.
- AP, Budget, Support — Attention and capital you manage; End turn refills AP only.
- End turn vs Wait — Refresh attention without moving the crisis year, or +2 years with higher crisis meters.
- Lobby — Spend to build public and policy Support.
- Two story faces — How it works + Everyday life.
- Harder challenge — Defend, Fix, or Sidestep under a critic’s pressure.
- Fielding stages — Pilot → Scale → New normal.
- More tech / themes — Full catalog, bigger stack, Choose a theme.
Play on your computer
Run Future Forge on your machine. Free for personal self-hosted use.
- Free for personal self-hosted use
- Needs a SuperGrok subscription
- Source on GitHub
- Start with Play tutorial — open the full game when you’re ready
Audience
High-school seniors & up
Format
AI-facilitated learning
Foundation
Curated curriculum
Purpose
Literacy, not just career training
The idea
Treat it like a subject — because it is one.
You don't study biology only because you want to become a doctor. You study it because it is good for you to know a bit about how life works. The same is true of math, physics, chemistry, literature.
The exponential progress of emerging technologies belongs in that company. Not as a coding bootcamp. Not as a “how to get a job in AI” funnel. As a subject — a durable map of how the world is changing, and why.
Warmer Sun exists so that map is available early: to high-school seniors, university undergrads, and junior professionals — before the future feels like something that only happens to other people.
Broad by design
Built for a wide audience — curious generalists, not only specialists already deep in tech.
Young-first
High-school seniors through early career. The years when frameworks stick for a lifetime.
Why this belongs in the curriculum
The case was made for universities. We take it younger.
In his 2009 TED talk “A university for the coming singularity”, Ray Kurzweil argued that exponentially advancing information technologies should be studied deliberately — with leaders as teachers and students — so humanity can understand and steer progress toward benefit.
That thinking helped shape Singularity University for professionals and advanced learners. Warmer Sun follows the same intellectual current, with a different center of gravity: younger minds, earlier, and as general education rather than an exclusive executive track.
The progress of AI, biotech, robotics, energy, and networked systems is not a niche interest. It is the background radiation of modern life. Someone should teach it like one.
Who it's for
High-school seniors and up.
If you’re about to choose a path — or already on one — and want to understand the exponential forces remaking every path, this is for you.
High-school seniors
Build a mental model before college and career lock in assumptions about what “the future” means.
University undergrads
Complement any major with literacy in the technologies reshaping every discipline.
Junior professionals
Stay oriented as tools, industries, and skill expectations shift underneath you.
How Warmer Sun works
Curated curriculum. AI-facilitated learning.
The packaging can change. The mission does not. What stays constant is a carefully curated body of ideas about exponential progress — and a learning experience designed to make those ideas stick.
Today, Warmer Sun is building around AI-based, AI-facilitated learning: personal pace, dialogue, practice, and guidance — with human-curated substance underneath, not random chat.
01
Curated curriculum
A coherent path through exponential thinking, key technology domains, and the human questions they raise — not an unfiltered firehose of hype.
02
AI facilitation
Learn in conversation: ask, challenge, apply. The facilitator adapts to your level while staying grounded in the curriculum.
03
Mission over format
Formats pivot. The north star doesn’t: make this subject accessible to young people who will live with its consequences.
Massive Transformative Purpose
Facilitate learning about the exponential progress of emerging technologies for a broad and young audience.
Hope that keeps shining on everyone starts with understanding. A warmer sun is not naïveté — it is literacy plus agency.
Play with others
Future Forge is better with people.
Inventing alone is fine. Finding others turns practice into a scene — online from anywhere, or in a room in your city.
Online
Discord, remote rooms, public beats
Share invention cards, pick up breakthrough→problem prompts, join inventing nights, and get install help on Discord. Host a friends room over the internet when you want co-op without everyone in the same house. On X, catch prompts and public beats from Warmer Sun.
- Discord inventing nights and install help
- Remote multiplayer via Tailscale Funnel
- Weekly prompts and public share
In person
City groups — start with Vancouver
See if a Future Forge group already exists near you. If not, register interest and we’ll review new cities. Approved groups appear as Coming… with a waiting list until they’re solid.
Share the subject
Pass Future Forge to someone who should invent
Get the game, invent once, and invite a friend — online or in the same room.