Kim Brown interviews Managing Editor Chrisella Sagers Herzog, of Diplomatic Courier Magazine, and Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, chief analyst of Wikistrat:

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Wikistrat bills itself as "the world’s first Massively Multiplayer Online Consultancy (MMOC)". It is made up of hundreds of analysts, connected globally through the internet, who run simulations on possible future events.

Large companies and even the federal government have expressed interest in using Wikistrat, who runs simulations for a consulting fee. Right now, they're working on predicting the future of Syria and Assad's regime.