The Ministry for the Distant Future is an institutional prototype that's only allowed to deliberate on consequences more than a thousand years out. "Ministry for X" is the pattern. You can fill in many futures.
How the word moved
In March 2026 a Secretary of the Future came up through Hanusch. By July 2026 the Ministry for the Distant Future was my worked example of an institutional prototype.
In my words
"Ministry for X is an institutional prototype pattern for many futures/alternatives."
from Habitability: Recasting the Planetarity Syllabus, 27 Jul 2026
Related
- Related Institutional Prototype - it's the example I used.
- Related Planetary Duree - it's governance for deep time.
- Related Planetary Steward - stewards as good ancestors.
Still open
How would such a ministry know anything about distant futures without projecting today's values onto them? I posed that question and I don't have an answer.