Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for creating community-generated scenarios that provide a narrative description of the future. In some embodiments, the present invention: scans the Internet for already published scenarios about the future of a particular topic; identifies underlying trends and change drivers in the already published scenarios; scans the Internet for information about the underlying trends and change drivers; publishes, in the form of abstracts, to a community of stakeholders the information about the underlying trends and change drivers; receives and publishes to the individual stakeholders the community's feedback regarding the validity, relevance, and impact of the underlying trends and change drivers with respect to the future of the topic; and provides a forum through which the community of individual stakeholders, in light of the published abstracts and feedback, can collaboratively apply their knowledge to develop community-generated scenarios about the future of the topic.
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