Patent Document ID: 20110112975
Application ID: 12617389
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for creating a community-generated scenario that provides a description of the future of a topic, the method comprising: scanning the Internet for at least an already published scenario about the future of the topic; identifying at least an underlying trend in the already published scenario; obtaining from the Internet information about the underlying trend; identifying at least a change driver that drives the trend; obtaining from the Internet information about the change driver that drives the trend; publishing to a community of stakeholders the information about the change driver; receiving from the community of stakeholders feedback regarding how the change driver will affect the topic in the future; monitoring the feedback regarding how the change driver will affect the topic in the future and highlighting content that differs from the information obtained from the Internet about the change driver; and providing a forum through which the community of stakeholders can develop the community-generated scenario around the highlighted content.