We have good news to report and some exciting research to share. First, the good news: A few weeks ago, the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) honored SUPERSTRUCT as the "Most Important Futures Work of 2008!" This prestigious honor belongs to you, and to the entire global community of more than 7000 Super-Empowered Hopeful Individuals. Superstruct was the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game – and it truly was the collaboration of the players that made this future so compelling, and so different from any previous forecasts.

On November 17, 2008 the Institute for the Future announced the winners of the Superstruct Awards in a live webcast. Each winner received a personal fan letter from one of the honorary game masters, including Bruce Sterling, Warren Ellis, Tara Hunt, and Tim O'Reilly.

You can watch the complete one-hour recording of the Superstruct Celebration on Ustream, or scroll down to read the results.

Congratulations to all of the honored Super-Empowered Human Individuals!

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At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019.

We received over 300 micro-forecasts in less than 24 hours. Here are the massively collaborative results!

The future of SOCIETY: It is 2019. How do you share your feelings?

The future of HEALTH: It's 2019. Describe your experience with health care.

At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019. Here are the massively collaborative food results!

Question #5: It’s 2019. How do you decide what’s for dinner?

At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019. Here are the massively collaborative security results!

Question #4: In 2019, who defines your identities, and who governs them?

At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019. Here are the massively collaborative energy results!

Question #3: What are your energy sources for your mobile, home and business life? How are they advantageous? Disadvantageous?

At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we
crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019. Here are the massively collaborative society results!

Question #2: It’s 2019. How do you share your feelings?

outwardly people will be even more opaque while choosing to only
display their true selves in a mediated fashion--a new generation will
grow up with multiple personality disorder enabled by having to juggle

At our Fall 2008 Technology Horizons Conference, we crowd-sourced five questions (via Twitter, blogs, email, and SMS) about Blended Realities in 2019. Here are the massively collaborative health results!

Anybody can create tools and platforms and spaces to support our Superstruct community.

What does the world of 2019 look like? Find out now.

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