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Super Forecasting

The Futurists

CHAPTER

The Future of Forecasting

The term super forecast actually comes from a research program that began in 2011 and ran for four years until 2015. It was funded by the intelligence community in the U.S., IARPA, which stands for the intelligence advanced research projects activity. A lot of the inspiration came from a book written by Philip Tettlock, who's a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

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