Future Professions

A lexicon of necessary roles from possible worlds.

Apr 06, 2026

Each entry in this collection names a role that becomes necessary when a society changes enough to require it.
The method is a kind of story-bearing classification: the profession is defined, the pressure is implied, and the world is left to emerge around it.
What appears compact on the surface often contains a conflict, an adaptation, a value system, and a civilization’s answer to pressure.

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MAKARI

Exit Planner

Kirenya

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Exit Planner — In societies where regenerative care, age reversal, and lifespan extension have made centuries-long lives ordinary, an Exit Planner helps individuals design a deliberate, dignified, an…

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