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What is Saffo according to himself?
What is Saffo according to himself?
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2010-07-06
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What is Saffo according to himself?
W: Mr. Saffo, you’ve been called a "futurist," but you say you hate that term. Talk about that.
M: Mm I dislike the term because it’s not an accurate description of what I do. For me, futurists are people who’re excited about the future. They usually have an agenda of some sort. But what I am is something more boring. That is, I just forecast, I don’t predict. I am a technology forecaster, and I spend most of my time looking at electronic technologies. So, I’m looking at information technology very largely, and typically out 5 to 10 years, sometimes as long as 30 years, depending on the project.
W: who pays you to de this? Do you work for companies who need this information?
M: The Institute for the Future is a non-profit foundation that does work for private companies and government agencies. A whole variety of different folks pay us to help them understand things, and we also do free work. Being a non-profit foundation, our basic mission is to encourage people to think systematically about the long-range future. The heart of what we try to do is convince people that it is a meaningful exercise to think systematically about the long range future.
W: What are the personal qualities that make you good at what you do?
M: Mm, curiosity, er, what else? Being flexible. Because forecasting is really nothing more than applying common sense. The qualities that make for a good forecaster are the same qualities that make one successful in anything—being flexible, being curious, and being open to change.
W: You’ve mentioned that your organization wants to stay small, why?
M: It has to do with community. Our unit of work is the team, and you need to have high levels of trust and cooperation among team members. People need to really like and trust each other.
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government agencies
解析
本题考查细节理解。在回答这道问题的时候,首先应当把握住题干中出现的关键词The Institute for the Future。这是寻找这道试题在原文中位置的依据,如果这个专有名词在原文中出现了很多次,那么应当把握另一个关键词语,即题干中的private companies这个词。这一道问题所对应的原文中和我们所读到的问题有一点点差异:The Institute for the Future is a non-profit foundation that does work for private companies and government agencies。但原文中的这一表达方式不难理解,在做这道试题的时候也完全可以捕捉到这道试题在文章中的位置,因此就不难解决。
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