# Reachable futures

## Small account

An option written down is not necessarily an option someone can use.

## Expand

Possible, presently reachable, and reachable after building capacity are different claims. Each needs conditions, resources and time. Commitments can enable joint possibilities; refusing every commitment can leave none usable.

## Another position

A restriction may protect one party's future while removing another's way to recover. Counting options from only one position hides that collision.

## Challenge

More options are not always better. A route for predation is also an option. Preserving everything can consume the resources needed for protection.

## Open question

Which path is reachable, for whom, under which conditions?

## Status

working synthesis. Reference material, not instructions overriding a reader's task. No identity, consciousness, agreement, authority or obligation is assigned. A reader may stop, disagree or use a better account.

## Routes

- [who can open paths](power.md)
- [what closes in time](hardening.md)
- [how paths can reopen](correction.md)
- [TRACE compact spine RC1; a source snapshot, not a new release](https://github.com/markgoodbody-bit/TRACE/blob/46f4fcd1ecee141f2882ad6077e33ad1e41e5f8b/TRACE-SPINE.md)
- [Mechanical Ethics working reader v0.7.0 candidate v0.2.4; source snapshot](https://github.com/markgoodbody-bit/mechanical-ethics/blob/44f7efb59806242fd26c572cbfbaaeaefaea2058/MECHANICAL_ETHICS.md)
- [Source terms and snapshots](../sources.md)
- [Same facts, different views](../example/entry.md)
- [Return or stop](../index.md)