BEFORE CASTING

October 18^th 2011

Interviewing people is exciting, being interviewed is far less interesting. Why? Because as an interviewer you go in the mind of the person in front of you, while being interviewed is like being obligated to give your soul away, and probably not for the right purpose. You feel uncertain, you blush and at times you lie because reality is more complex then you’d like to pretend. Can we go into people’s minds and dream their dreams? Can we imagine the future, journey through the brains of thousands of people worldwide? Yes, we can try to. We can find our way in the liquid world, searching data, probing social changes, communicating with unknown friends and having fun sitting on our bed or listening to music or viewing style.com. The more we know the more we become ill informed, we doubt and lose control. It is an endless cycle of questioning others and ourselves, but the answers are inside our body. Every human being is knowledgeable. We all possess an innate survival mechanism based on knowledge. Let’s use it to predict the future. Let’s go for the new and the brave.

Let’s stick together and share a vision, create a platform and answer questions without lying. Together with researchers, archeologists, scientists we have to analyze the symptoms of our own behavior. We have to look in the mirror and say: “Hello, who are you? Which way are you? What are you doing? Where are you going?” If we find the answers, if we challenge ourselves, we can find inner peace. Luckily every day there is a new challenge in this fast changing society. Luckily that mirror is expecting us every day. Luckily there is a lot to do to find answers…

Linda Loppa.

Dean Polimoda

Introduction to students Trend Forecasting Magazine – October 2011.