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marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social @mgorbis

Institute for the Future, Author of Nature of the Future

Joined August 2008
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This broke my heart. “Why would one of the richest men in the world commit such an act of injustice?” Halimi asked. “Sometimes I think that if Elon Musk himself were fully informed about this matter, he would likely be deeply ashamed.” Feeling shame @elonmusk @NateCavanaugh?!
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On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

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Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

ALT Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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Why I Always Vote: my response to the irresponsible and astounding oped by Matthew Walther in the @nytimes linkedin.com/posts/marinagor…

Why I Always Vote! | Marina Gorbis

Why I Always Vote!

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"Mathematica Research compared people who had received job training under the 1998 law, now known as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, with a randomly selected control group. Thirty months later, the training had zero effect on earnings." theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

The Problem With ‘In Demand’ Jobs

Federal workforce-training programs prepare people for dead-end jobs that no one wants.

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Looking forward to this!
Institute For The Future@iftf
26 Jun 2024
Join @mgorbis and @WomenInGenAI June 28 for discussions on GenAI and The Future of Work & empowering sessions with influential women in the field of artificial intelligence. bit.ly/45FK6kW
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A devastating loss of an incredible human being who’s inspired so many of us at @iftf and throughout the world. Keeping that blue marble close @wallacejnichols 💔
Santa Cruz Works@SantaCruzWorks
17 Jun 2024
Santa Cruz and the world have recently lost a profoundly influential figure, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols. Learn more about his incredible impact on environmental science and beyond. buff.ly/3KNbQdC
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22 May 2024
New from @BrennanCenter @TheElectionsGrp and @iftf: How election officials can prepare for AI threats to 2024 elections. Read and share major set of solutions, plans, and checklists for the public servants who run them ⬇️ brennancenter.org/our-work/r…

How Election Officials Can Identify, Prepare for, and Respond to AI Threats

This guide covers numerous scenarios involving artificial intelligence, including fake images, video, and audio.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review@SSIReview
21 May 2024
“Foresight tools can help social sector orgs become future-ready: turning them into sensing and sense-making entities.” Marina Gorbis (@mgorbis) of @iftf outlines how #foundations and #nonprofits can use futures thinking to ensure a more equitable world: ssir.org/articles/entry/futu…

Using Strategic Foresight to Create the Future We Want (SSIR)

The future is having a moment. Philanthropic and nonprofit organizations can use the foresight tools long championed by private industry to build more desirable futures for their communities.

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It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires nytimes.com/interactive/2024… Today, the superrich control a greater share of America’s wealth than during the Gilded Age of Carnegies and Rockefellers.That's partly because taxes on the wealthy have cratered.

Opinion | It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires (Published 2024)

Billionaires are experts at avoiding taxes. By banding together, countries can make them pay up.

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Time--number of hours per day--is one invariable in our lives and we are remarkably consistent in how we spend it (unless we eliminate sleep, in which case all bets are off!) linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…

The 67-Hour Rule | Marina Gorbis

In a recent Atlantic article Derek Thompson https://lnkd.in/dE-Qemwp points to two recent research papers--“The Great Transition,” by the economists Jeremy Greenwood, Ricardo Marto, and Nezih Guner,...

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Congratulations to a visionary, a movement maker, and one of my favorite collaborators @nataliefoster on publishing her much needed book! You can listen to my conversation with Natalie here soundcloud.com/institute-for…

Future Now 016 — "The Guarantee" author Natalie Foster

Natalie Foster, author of "The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy," is the president and co-founder of the Economic Security Project. She is also an alumna of IFTF's Future for Goo

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Institute For The Future@iftf
23 Apr 2024
What could our society be like if we guaranteed income, free public college, affordable healthcare, good work, homes, family care, and even an inheritance? You can read about what’s possible– & already happening today–in The Guarantee by @NatalieFoster. #TheGuarantee
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"Capitalists don't want market economies, where they have to compete with one another, eroding their margins and profits – they want a planned economy, like Amazon, where Party Secretary Bezos and his commissars tell merchants what they can sell and tell us what we must pay" !!!
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER
@doctorow
19 Apr 2024
Combine Angelou's "When someone shows you who they are, believe them" with the truism that in politics, "every accusation is a confession" and you get: "Every time someone accuses you of a vice, they're showing you who they are and you should believe them." 1/
A tightrope walker in a tuxedo and top-hat. He is about to fall off his tightrope and his eyes are white and staring, while his mouth is open in a scream. The tightrope is anchored to a street-post with a 'Wall Street' sign on it. The post is being knocked askew by hundreds of tiny workers and farmers whose upraised fists have combined into one giant fist that is pushing the post over. In front of the tightrope walker is a black anarchist cat, barring his way. Image: Vlad Lazarenko (modified) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_Sign_(1-9).jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

ALT A tightrope walker in a tuxedo and top-hat. He is about to fall off his tightrope and his eyes are white and staring, while his mouth is open in a scream. The tightrope is anchored to a street-post with a 'Wall Street' sign on it. The post is being knocked askew by hundreds of tiny workers and farmers whose upraised fists have combined into one giant fist that is pushing the post over. In front of the tightrope walker is a black anarchist cat, barring his way. Image: Vlad Lazarenko (modified) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_Sign_(1-9).jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

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Institute For The Future@iftf
13 Apr 2024
Where does the phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” come from? Listen to the full conversation between author @lisquart and IFTF Executive Director @MGorbis, about Quart’s new book “Bootstrapped,” on the Future Now podcast. apple.co/3Q2sER3
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Institute For The Future@iftf
10 Apr 2024
Nearly all work will be transformed by AI-enabled tools. IFTF's foresight research takes a close look at AI's effects in the context of Transportation, Construction, Real Estate, Insurance, Media, & Consumer Goods in Japan. Explore each deep forecast here: bit.ly/3Jbh3Lz
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"AI could create situations where workers might retain their jobs, but critical aspects of their roles that they find enjoyable or meaningful could be replaced by technology, leaving them with tasks that feel tedious or alienating." iftf.org/projects/three-hori… A must read!

IFTF - Three Horizons of AI-Enabled Work and Workers

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"A company must be, first, a platform for human contribution if it is to be anything else at all." It shouldn't be a "corporate blender." nytimes.com/2024/03/21/opini…

Opinion | Mass Tech Layoffs? Just Another Day in the Corporate Blender. (Published 2024)

The wave of unnecessary layoffs sweeping Silicon Valley is the latest evidence of corporate America’s addiction to change for change’s sake.

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Journalists, out of necessity, discovering #equitableenterise theguardian.com/media/2024/m…. Many more workers in creative and knowledge sectors will have to do so.

Journalism is in freefall. These writers aren’t giving up: ‘We can go out swinging’

With layoffs ramping up across the media industry, reporters are trying a new model: co-operative newsrooms of their own

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Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem nytimes.com/2024/03/18/opini… Another segment of our society/economy being gobbled up

Opinion | Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem (Published 2024)

Private equity is cannibalizing the music industry by buying up old hits and pushing them back into our cultural consciousness.

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"language of climate change remains an elite, technical language. It is opaque and impenetrable to most people, and it excludes the working class." How do we make that discussion about our future accessible to, and inclusive of, a broader range of voices?
Phenomenal World
@phenomenalworld
15 Mar 2024
"Fossil fuel-enabled individualism in the West is seen as sacrosanct. It is very difficult to bring about climate action in a world in which we are so alienated from each other." New on the Polycrisis, Tim Sahay interviews Chris Shaw. phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
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Why the world cannot afford the rich nature.com/articles/d41586-0… The evidence in incontrovertible: "large differences in income are a powerful social stressor that is increasingly rendering societies dysfunctional"

Why the world cannot afford the rich

Nature - Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal,...

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