Futures wheel — remote work becomes default
A structured-brainstorming futures wheel that ripples a single trend outward into first- and second-order consequences across concentric, color-coded rings.
For the foresight facilitator
What this shows
A futures wheel — Jerome Glenn's 1971/72 technique for thinking past a trend's obvious effects. A single event sits at the hub ("remote work becomes default"), its first-order consequences land on the inner ring, and each of those fans out to its own second-order consequences on the next ring. Reading outward is reading forward in causal time: less commuting leads to lower emissions and cheaper city living; empty offices lead to a commercial-real-estate slump and housing conversions.
The layout does the discipline for you. Every child is kept inside its parent's angular sector, so a branch never tangles with its neighbors, and each ring is color-coded by order — the visual cue that tells a workshop room how many steps removed a given consequence is from the original trend. It is the same # / ## / - mindmap input you already write, switched on with %% style: futureswheel.