Arlington Institute
Arlington Institute (Think tank) | |
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Motto | Original ideas for an emerging new world |
Headquarters | Berkeley Springs, West Virginia |
Membership | • John Petersen • Kenneth Dabrowski • Napier Collyns • David E. Martin • James Woolsey • Catherine Austin Fitts • William Colby • David Gergen • Elmo Zumwalt |
American future-predicting think tank. Members include former CIA director and deep other state actors. Also include future Covid dissidents Catherine Austin Fitts and David E. Martin. |
The Arlington Institute (TAI), formerly The Arlington Institute for National Strategy,[1] is an American think tank based in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. It is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.[2]
History
TAI was founded in 1989 by John Petersen.[3] The organization was incorporated in the State of Virginia on November 28, 1989 as The Arlington Institute for National Strategy.[4] Its name was shortened to The Arlington Institute on May 6, 1992.
On September 4, 1992, Petersen participated in a discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association titled "Desert Storm: Insights into the Future" alongside Neal Creighton.[5]
David E. Martin joined the Arlington Institute's Board of Directors in September 2006.[6]
On January 16, 2008, Petersen registered The Arlington Institute, Inc. in the State of West Virginia.[7]
On March 30, 2023, Petersen registered a second entity called The Arlington Institute in West Virginia.[8]
Activities
"At The Arlington Institute we do scenarios. We build them for our clients in various shapes and colors, for we believe that they are the most effective tool currently available for systematically considering the future. Some of our clients want to know about the future of their marketplace, or a major contributing factor to their operating environment, like technology. Others are concerned about possible big surprise events - wild cards - that might blow in unexpectedly and fundamentally shift the status quo."[9]
"Perhaps the most powerful scenario variant is the normative scenario, or desired future. After completing the process of developing an initial set of scenarios the strategist can look across the spectrum of possible futures and begin to develop an image of the future that is particularly desired. A well-crafted normative scenario allows an organization to become proactive, working specifically for their desired future, rather than sitting by and passively waiting for what ever the world delivers."[9]
In 2002, TAI launched the Large Integrated Search and Analysis (LISA) system, intended to "scour the Internet and other media for information that might one day predict otherwise unpredictable events." TAI hired Semantix and Smartlogik to work on the project, along with a third unnamed technology partner.[10]
In September 2008, TAI published an article discussing its WHETHEReport project related to predicting the future through dreams.[11]
Speakers
Guest speakers featured by TAI between 2007-2023 include:[12]
Team
- John Petersen - Founder
- Napier Collyns - Board member[13]
- David E. Martin - Board member
- James Woolsey - Board member[14]
- Catherine Austin Fitts - Advisory Board member[15]
- William Colby - Member[16]
- David Gergen - Member
- Elmo Zumwalt - Member
Funding
TAI receives some of its funding from government and corporate projects. Clients include:[17][18]
- Andersen Consulting
- Boeing
- Fetzer Institute
- Government of Singapore
- Honda
- IBM
- New Directions for News
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Project Voyager
- Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico
- United States Armed Forces
- United States Coast Guard
- United States Marine Corps
- United States Navy
Partners
Current and former partners of the Arlington Institute include:[19][20][21][22][23][24]
- AllTop
- Alternative Futures Associates
- Atlassian
- Bruce Webster, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Content Evolution
- Convera
- Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
- Don Beck, National Values Center (NVC)
- Eddie Mahe Company
- Foundation for the Future
- Garden Atriums
- George Washington University
- Global Business Network (GBN)
- Global Futures Forum
- Greater Washington Society of Association Executives (GWSAE)
- Halogen
- Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
- IBM
- Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF)
- Institute for the Future
- Kapow Technologies
- Lenovo
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
- PlanetData
- Powersim Solutions
- Semantix
- SmartLogik
- Spiral Dynamics Integral
- Think Tools
- Whole Systems
- World Future Society(WFS)
- World Trends Research
- ZilYen
References
- ↑ Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission. The Arlington Institute. OpenCorporates. Retrieved December 18, 2023, from https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_va/03501392
- ↑ Support Our Mission. Arlington Institute. Retrieved December 18, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231218191354/https://arlingtoninstitute.org/support-our-mission/
- ↑ Home. Arlington Institute. Retrieved December 6, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231206234820/https://arlingtoninstitute.org/
- ↑ Entity Information - The Arlington Institute. Commonwealth of Virginia State Corporation Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.18-194027/https://cis.scc.virginia.gov/EntitySearch/BusinessInformation?businessId=164121&source=FromEntityResult&isSeries%20=%20false
- ↑ Preliminary Program of the 1992 Annual Meeting. (1992). PS: Political Science and Politics, 25(2), 390. http://www.jstor.org/stable/419733
- ↑ M·CAM CEO named to the Board of Directors of The Arlington Institute. (2006, September 13). M·CAM. http://archive.today/2023.12.07-073344/https://www.m-cam.com/2006/09/13/ma·cam-ceo-named-to-the-board-of-directors-of-the-arlington-institute/
- ↑ Business Organization Detail - The Arlington Institute, Inc. West Virginia Secretary of State — Online Data Services. Retrieved December 18, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.18-223747/https://apps.sos.wv.gov/business/corporations/organization.aspx?org=264203
- ↑ Business Organization Detail - The Arlington Institute. West Virginia Secretary of State—Online Data Services. Retrieved December 18, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.18-193551/https://apps.sos.wv.gov/business/corporations/organization.aspx?org=553109
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20011224133657/http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/skills/scenarios.html
- ↑ Hardy, M. (2002, February 4). Institute aims to discern the future from media analysis. Boston Business Journal. http://archive.today/2023.12.13-231722/https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2002/02/institute-aims-to-discern-the-future-from.html
- ↑ Sterling, B. (2008, September 11). Arlington Institute asks for precognitive dreamers. Wired. http://archive.today/2023.12.18-220425/https://www.wired.com/2008/09/arlington-insti/
- ↑ Past Speakers. Arlington Institute. Retrieved December 12, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.12-061111/https://arlingtoninstitute.org/transitiontalks/past-speakers/
- ↑ Board of Directors. The Arlington Institute. Retrieved October 4, 2007, from http://archive.today/2007.10.04-214348/http://arlingtoninstitute.org/tai/board-directors
- ↑ Fisher, R. (2013). Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent: Capitalism, Democracy and the Organisation of Consent. Corporate Watch c/o Freedom Press. https://web.archive.org/web/20231213231516/https://corporatewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/MDMD-Master-PDF1.pdf
- ↑ Catherine Austin Fitts. Solari. Retrieved October 2, 2002, from http://archive.today/2002.10.02-024428/http://www.solari.com/about/ca_fitts.html
- ↑ Positions and Courses Taught. Social Vibes. Retrieved December 18, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.18-202503/https://www.socialvibes.net/socialvi/positions-and-courses-taught/
- ↑ Resume. Ken Dabkowski. Retrieved January 9, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20130109154536/http://www.kendabkowski.com/resume/
- ↑ Clients. The Arlington Institute. Retrieved November 13, 2001, from https://web.archive.org/web/20011113015826/http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/about_tai/clients.html
- ↑ Partners and Friends. The Arlington Institute. Retrieved May 17, 2008, from http://archive.today/2008.05.17-100211/http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/tai/partners-and-friends
- ↑ Partners and Friends. The Arlington Institute. Retrieved December 10, 2008, from https://web.archive.org/web/20081210044803/http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/tai/partners-and-friends
- ↑ Partners and Friends. The Arlington Institute. Retrieved June 12, 2010, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100612195007/http://arlingtoninstitute.org/tai/partners-and-friends
- ↑ Alliances & Partners. The Arlington Institute. Retrieved September 23, 2001, from http://archive.today/2001.09.23-203305/http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/about_tai/alliances_partners.html
- ↑ Technology Partners. The Arlington Institute. Retrieved June 12, 2002, from https://web.archive.org/web/20020612091554/http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org:80/about_tai/alliances_partners.html
- ↑ Technology Partners. The Arlington Institute. Retrieved February 3, 2004, from https://web.archive.org/web/20040203144430/http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/about_tai/alliances_partners.html