Mid-Season Reflection
What have we established — and why does that make the next set of conversations unavoidable rather than optional?
What this episode does
Synthesises Phases 1 and 2. Must contain at least one new proposition that emerges from the collision of the first six episodes — not just a summary. Re-anchors the season before moving from description to consequence.
Key threads
- Phases 1 and 2 describe the system, not opinions
- Energy, land, materials, and compute act as hard constraints, not policy choices
- System collisions are not failures of ambition, but of mismatch between timelines and physics
- Once constraints collide, outcomes are shaped by decisions, not optimisation
Everything up to this point explains how the physical system works. Phase 3 is about how that system is steered.