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The closest would be Forrester and Gartner. I've worked at both and they are functional equivalents.
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Interesting that there aren’t true tech think tanks where you could go work on speculative things. Chiices are: academia, industry, industrial/govt R&D labs with a productization expectation, or startup incubators. The best fit might actually be art residencies at museums.
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Not what I’m thinking about. Those are management think tanks that focus on tech trends. They don’t do any tech themselves. I mean thinking about tech by trying to actually do it. About 20 years upstream of forester/gartner
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Although you can do deep speculation at a tech think tank. I wrote a report laying out the basics of social networking in 1996 (called personal broadcast networks) -- and would have written others if they let me ;-<
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It is truly weird to see you two talking about Gartner and Forrester. It's been quite an education for me, as a tech innovator, to see how they mint Fake News about the data science/machine learning/AI transformation to industry laggards who can't spell "Python" ;-)
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Jay Forrester was Vannevar Bush’s student and was doing cybernetics-flavored systems theory models in the 60s if that’s what you mean. Not a fan of that whole tradition myself.
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