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Marina Gorbis guest blogs for BoingBoing.net: Sign Off from BB
Today's BoingBoing guest blog marks the end of Marina's two-week blogging stint. Below is an excerpt from her farewell post, which can be read in full here:
Thank you so much for allowing me to engage you in a conversation. Our signature process at the Institute for the Future is what we call "Foresight to Insight to Action." We don't predict the future, because nobody can do that. Rather, we create provocative but realistic visions of the future. We use those forecasts to engage people in conversations about what this particular future might mean to them and to their organizations, what is important, what they need to pay attention to, what challenges they might be facing. Those are the insights that they can then use to develop action steps to achieve a desirable future.
To follow Marina's thoughts into the future, visit her new blog From Odessa to the Future
Links to Marina's previous BoingBoing posts:
Achieving Happiness on just $800,000
Personal Transformations in the Internet Age
Socialstructing: Statement of Social Currency
Collecting dead souls in social media
Socialstructing: Bringing social back into our economy and organizations