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1. Response 5
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To begin this assignment, compose your Response 5 by addressing the following
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Read this the assigned essays Cohen
In the opening sentences, give the author's full name and "Essay Title" in a complete
sentence.
Give your reactions, opinions, and thoughts about the material.
You need not mention the author again unless you quote or summarize the material.
If you give the author's name again, use last name only.
If you use the author's words (quote) or ideas (summary), cite both in text and
bibliographically.
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***Remember that Responses 4, 5, & 6 are a unit; if you did Response 4, you need to do only
Response 5 or Response 6--you choose. If you skipped Response 4, you must do Responses
5 & 6.***
Write your answer in a short paragraph (250+ words).
tain dirt and rock samples. Vago says that this drilling will be the deepest that hu-mans have
ever before pried into the planet.“This is a 3-D rover,” says Vago. “For the first time, we will
be able to look into Mars’s third dimension, that of depth.”The rover will deposit the
samples into a cache. Sometime after 2024, a third robotic mission may retrieve the samples
and fly them back to Earth for astronomers to study in person.“This mission in 2018, you
can think of it as the first element of Mars sample return,” says Vago. “The long-term aim is
Mars sample return.”Viewing Mars’s inner core will probably not be possible any time in the
near future, Mumma concludes, but he considers studying the gas emissions up close to be
the next-best thing. They may reveal much about what is taking place under the Mar-tian
surface.“Detecting these effluent gases would be one of the most direct clues. Other than
that, we’re stuck with looking at surface land forms,” he says. —Rick DocksaiSources: Marc
Kaufman (interview), The Washington Post; author of First Contact: Scientific
Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth (Simon & Schuster, 2011. 213 pages.
$26).Michael Mumma (interview), NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center,
www.nasa.gov/goddard.Jorge Vago (interview), European Space Agency,

2. www.esa.int.WorkFour Scenarios for Co-WorkingSharing workspace offers potential
benefits in an uncertain economy.Telecommuters, freelancers, and others without a regular
office to anchor their workday may suffer from loneliness or re-quire a more professional
environment than a local coffeehouse from which to con-companies it, then the methane
almost cer-tainly came from something living.“We are hopeful that, if we see a meth-ane
hotspot, we will look closely for these other gases to see what’s really happen-ing,” says
Mumma.While finding life would be momentous, according to ESA ExoMars Project scientist
Jorge Vago, so would finding signs of geo-logical movement. Geological activity would
suggest a warm inner core. This means that Mars might have enough heat in zones below its
surface to sustain micro-bial life.“In either case, it will mean the planet is not dead—either
from a geological point of view or from a biological point of view,” says Vago.The first
ExoMars mission will launch in 2016 and, upon arriving in Martian aero-space in mid-2017,
will deploy a rover that will land on the surface and spend four days analyzing the soil and
air. The space-craft above will continue orbiting and ana-lyzing atmospheric gases for the
next two years.A follow-up ExoMars mission in 2018 will carry a rover with a drilling arm
that will tunnel two meters into the soil to ob-8 THE FUTURIST July-August 2011
World Trends & Forecasts“This is a 3-D rover. For the first time, we will be able to look into
Mars’s third dimension, that of depth.”—Jorge Vago, ESAFuturist Update Your link to
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1. Stable econ-omy/stable com-munity. In the best-case sce-nario, co-working has gone
main-stream and its ap-peal has ex-panded. More and more compa-nies recognize it as a
viable way to increase effi-ciency, productiv-ity, and employee satisfaction and well-being.
As a result, employees are offered this option upon be-ing hired. Most co-working spaces
are staffed 24 hours a day to accommodate everyone’s sched-ule.2. Stable econ-
omy/unstable community. As in the above situation, everyone is generally doing well
career-wise. However, most of the advan-tages of co-working—including side bene-fits such
as educational classes, guest speakers, social mixers, and other activi-ties—have
disappeared. According to this scenario’s authors, “new members often arrived to an empty
or near empty space and received no orientation or details about their membership.” In the
absence of any genuine leadership or investment in the community, those hired to run these
fa-cilities don’t really know what they’re do-ing or why they’re doing it (aside from the
paycheck).With no real sense of community and little to keep people there, members come
and go. As trust and camaraderie evapo-rate, those who remain erect cubicle walls. There is
very little in the way of communi-cation (much less collaboration) in the space.3. Unstable

3. economy/stable community. Despite the ongoing recession, “fierce loy-alty and tight
networking bonds” among duct business. One solution, co-working, may offer some options
to improve work-ing lives and productivity.With co-working, independent and free-lance
workers voluntarily share an office space if not necessarily a common em-ployer.
Emphasizing cooperation over competition, the process enables remote (i.e., otherwise
placeless) workers to create a community, a support system, and a strong professional
network among them-selves. Co-workers report having found opportunities to collaborate,
share skills, and subcontract among each other, and perhaps not surprisingly, many find
they are able to be more productive in such an environment.Regardless of the type of work
that is performed, the co-working spaces them-selves can be run on either a nonprofit or a
for-profit basis; they typically charge a monthly membership fee (generally inex-pensive),
and the level of membership can vary depending on how much time one plans to spend at
the office.There were more than 700 such spaces around the world as of March 2011,
accord-ing to online co-working magazine Deskmag.com. While that number may seem
small, it is significant: It represents around twice as many facilities as there were just twelve
months prior. The movement is clearly growing fast, but its direction is not entirely certain
at this point.To help gain a clearer picture of co-work-ing’s possibilities, a scenario analysis
workshop was conducted by Thomas Chermack, the director of Colorado State University’s
Scenario Planning Institute, and Angel Kwiatkowski, the founder of Cohere, a co-working
space in Fort Collins, Colorado. Projecting several years ahead, the group at Cohere
developed a set of near-term scenarios.After going through hundreds of sticky notes, the
group managed to pin down what participants agreed were the two most important key
variables determining co-working’s future. The first was an inter-nal game changer (will a
given co-working group hold together?). The second was an external one (is the economy
stable or un-stable?). The group then created four sce-narios based on these two variables:
THE FUTURIST July-August 2011 9Angel Kwiatkowski, founder of the co-working space
Cohere, discussed the future of the growing co-working movement with THE FUTURIST at
the Arthouse in Austin, Texas, during SXSW Interactive 2011. Earlier in the week, she
presented the results of a scenario analysis workshop on the subject at Ignite SXSW.AARON
M. COHEN
working as it exists today will either take a turn for the worse or disappear altogether. In
the end, Kwiatkowski believes co-working will most likely evolve somewhat along the lines
described in the third sce-nario. On the one hand, there will be co-working spaces “run by
really passionate people who love what they’re doing,” she says. They may not believe in
growth or have any interest in scaling their activity. However, they will be fully engaged and
immersed in the communities they are creating. “On the other side of the continuum,”
Kwiatkowski notes, “you have the ‘chain restaurant’ [model] of co-working: people
franchising and opening multiple spaces and hiring community managers.” With the
support of corporations, partnerships, and sponsorships, these franchises may or may not
be interconnected, and may ulti-mately be more accountable to their inves-tors than their
members. “That’s the division I’m already starting to see,” she says. “We’re polarizing on
op-posite ends.” So while many “officeless” workers may increasingly be tempted to join
the ranks of co-working in the future, they may want to look for those office spaces that

4. emphasize community over facilities. When it comes to co-working’s future, smaller may be
better. — Aaron M. Cohen Source: Angel Kwiatkoski (interview), Cohere LLC,
www.coherecommunity.com. Computers Gaming for Better Decision Making
Overconfidence can lead to poor decisions, as gamblers should know. A new Web-based
game developed by researchers in the U.K. endeavors to help users quantify their level of
confidence to improve decision making. World of Uncertainty uses mathematics, long-term
members enable co-working spaces to flourish. Meanwhile, corporate co-working fran-
chises begin popping up. Cheaper to join, these offer “more lavish amenities” but lack the
same sense of community as the smaller, less-profit-oriented spaces. As a re-sult, they tend
to attract a different, less tightly knit crowd, and the turnover rate is higher. Ultimately, the
smaller model proves more sustainable, while the larger franchises struggle. 4. Unstable
economy/unstable commu-nity. Upon arrival, co-workers (if you can even call them that)
walk through a turn-stile, slide their credit cards through a plexiglass partition, and then
choose an empty stall in which to work in isolation. Everything is pay-per-minute. There is
little to no interaction between people. There is also little trust and security (you’d be wise
to take your valuables with you if you leave the room). While this scenario may be more
satirical than realistic, the point is clear: Without an emphasis on community building, co-
10 THE FUTURIST July-August 2011 World Trends & ForecastsThere will be co-
working spaces “run by really passion-ate people who love what they’re doing.”—Angel
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