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		<title>The Future of Halloween</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/the-future-of-halloween/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dia de los Muertos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quickie for fun&#8230; what is the future of Halloween?
This article from PRNewsNow  points to the ongoing trend of Halloween being more of an adult celebration than a time of enjoyment for children. Reason: The &#8221;Baby Boomers,&#8221; who are the &#8220;never-grow-old&#8221; generation, have made it such, desiring to remain young and re-create the fun they had at Halloween as [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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		<title>Is Humanity Growing Up?</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/is-humanity-growing-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Kahane]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Complexity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Emergence]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/?p=299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for not having blogged in quite a awhile. I&#8217;ve been out of town off and on since early September, both for the purposes of vacationing and networking. Anyway, I&#8217;m back, and I have plenty of ideas and thoughts roaming around &#8220;upstairs.&#8221;
On September 12th, I led a workshop on the  &#8221;Journey into New Levels of [...]]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://a.wordpress.com/avatar/forwardonline-128.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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		<title>Superstruct Update: This Game Could Change Everything!</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/superstruct-update-this-game-could-change-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/superstruct-update-this-game-could-change-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adaptability]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Jamais Cascio]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[MMO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Normative Futures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Online Gaming]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/?p=301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, now that I&#8217;ve got your attention&#8230;
First, as timely and effective as Superstruct will be, this game will not change everything. No &#8220;one thing&#8221; will change everything! I actually intended the title as a little futurist humor (very little) in response to a post by Futurist, Speaker, and Writer Jamais Cascio. Click here to see what I [...]]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://a.wordpress.com/avatar/forwardonline-128.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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		<title>Jay Gary on the Future in Current Politics</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/jay-gary-on-the-future-in-current-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/jay-gary-on-the-future-in-current-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jay Gary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/?p=295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jay Gary has recently written an excellent article on exploring the issue of foresight in regards to the current political scene in the United States, and since I&#8217;ve been ultra-busy lately  - without time to post an original blog entry - I&#8217;m submitting it for your enjoyment. It&#8217;s a short but timely piece about the [...]]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://a.wordpress.com/avatar/forwardonline-128.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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		<title>Spiral Dynamics Integral and the Future of the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/spiral-dynamics-integral-and-the-future-of-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/spiral-dynamics-integral-and-the-future-of-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>forwardonline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Aspirational Futures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Don Beck]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elza Maalouf]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/?p=173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
So, as you can see, I&#8217;m back on a huge human development and social emergence focus, and here&#8217;s one of the reasons why&#8230;
I recently had the privilege of attending a session led by Don Beck and Elza Maalouf at the latest installment of the World Future Society conference in Washington, DC. The session, entitled &#8220;New Eyes, New Lenses, and [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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		<title>Superstruct! Answering the Questions of Human Survival through Social Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/superstruct-answering-the-questions-of-human-survival-through-social-collaboration/</link>
		<comments>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/superstruct-answering-the-questions-of-human-survival-through-social-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>forwardonline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Foresight]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Futures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Institute for the Future]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jane McGonigal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MMO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Resilience]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scenario Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scenarios]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Superstruct]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Recently, I was chosen to be on the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Future&#8217;s Superstruct team! What is Superstruct? Here, in IFTF&#8217;s own words:


Superstruct! Play the game, invent the future. 

This fall, the Institute for the Future invites you to play Superstruct, the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. It’s not just about [...]]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://a.wordpress.com/avatar/forwardonline-128.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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		<title>The Interactive City: Outdoor Installations as Social Experiments</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/the-interactive-city-outdoor-installations-as-social-experiments/</link>
		<comments>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/the-interactive-city-outdoor-installations-as-social-experiments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>forwardonline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Actor Analysis]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Landry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Collaborative Entrepreneurship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Collaborative Intelligence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Connectivity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Capital]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Human Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Futures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Collaboration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Experiments]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[The Creative Coast Alliance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In particular, I wanted to give a little love to those who are working to instill more &#8220;loveability&#8221; into my hometown of Savannah. In general, I wanted to comment on the use of outdoor interactive events as a type of social experiment, driving the denizens toward collaborative intelligence and social entrepreneurship.
As noted here and here (See, [...]]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://a.wordpress.com/avatar/forwardonline-128.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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		<title>Society 2.0</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/society-20/</link>
		<comments>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/society-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>forwardonline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Aspirational Futures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Citizen 2.0]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Complexity]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Human Development]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Place 2.0]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Richard Florida]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sicco Van Gelder]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Futures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 Several years ago, I had the privilege of seeing Richard Florida speak on the rise of the creative class in Savannah, Georgia, and what the city leaders needed to do in order to develop an environment conducive to collaborative entrepreneurship and innovation that answers the demographic, economic, and environmental concerns facing our generation - and [...]]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://a.wordpress.com/avatar/forwardonline-128.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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		<title>Futures Grab Bag #1</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/futures-grab-bag-1/</link>
		<comments>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/futures-grab-bag-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>forwardonline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Anticipatory Futures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Aspirational Futures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Foresight]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Futures Studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Global Futures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Futures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Normative Futures]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[emerging futures]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to write an ongoing post that details some of the latest news, trends, and events that relate to foresight across the human spectrum, so without fanfare, here&#8217;s the first installment:
Global Policy Development
This excerpt from a Friday, June 20th editorial by David Broder entitled &#8220;Foreign Policy&#8217;s Best Hope&#8221; (Or by several other names, all depending [...]]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://a.wordpress.com/avatar/forwardonline-128.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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		<title>Bottled Water and a Gallon of Gas: Using Systems Thinking to Reframe the Issue of Rising Prices.</title>
		<link>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/bottled-water-and-a-gallon-of-gas-using-systems-thinking-to-reframe-the-issue-of-rising-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/bottled-water-and-a-gallon-of-gas-using-systems-thinking-to-reframe-the-issue-of-rising-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>forwardonline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Drivers]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Oil Prices]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Reframing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwardonline.wordpress.com/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, a long title, and a bit cryptic again. However, you should be able to guess where this post is going by now. (That is, if you have read the previous two posts dealing with the idea of &#8220;reframing&#8221; in the context of organizational strategy, social change, and everyday personal experience and thought.)
First, there is this [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Frank Spencer</media:title>
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