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IFTF News from the Future #80
Oct 06, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | September
Sep 28, 2022
Sparking a Sense of Hope & Agency
Sep 19, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #79
Sep 08, 2022
Designing an Anticipatory Institution
Aug 26, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | August
Aug 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #78
Aug 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #77
Aug 02, 2022
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IFTF News From the Future #76
Jul 14, 2022
What Exactly is Futures Thinking?
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IFTF News from the Future #75
Jun 23, 2022
CA 100 MEGA Scenarios
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IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | June
Jun 16, 2022
Congratulations, Urgent Optimist founding members!
Jun 13, 2022
Deploying Artists as Futurists and Policy Makers
May 27, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #74
May 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #73
May 19, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Initiative Newsletter #6
Apr 29, 2022
How a Public Utility Used Foresight to Take Action
Apr 21, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #72
Apr 07, 2022
New Course: Designing Sustainable Futures
Mar 30, 2022
How to Win Over Your Futures Skeptics
Mar 28, 2022
IFTF News From the Future #71
Mar 24, 2022
News From the Future #70
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News From the Future #69
Feb 17, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #68
Jan 26, 2022
News from the Future #67
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"I'm here to enlist you to help rewrite the story of how things cooperate....
"Overall pattern of sociotechnical change in the last several decades: "The social revolution of the 1950s-70s is intersecting with the technological...
"I see the blog is up on one of the public machines, so I thought I'd write a quick post. Welcome, everyone!...
"The 2005 conference starts tomorrow afternoon. We're pretty much all running around, rehearsing presentations, reworking slides, and doing the...
Notes from the final session of the Commerce Department's RFID in 2005 conference. As with all notes, they're my take on what was said, not a precise...
More notes from the Commerce Department's RFID in 2005 conference. The usual caveats-- that, as Jacques Derrida put it, every decoding is another...
More notes from the Commerce Department's RFID in 2005 conference. The usual caveats-- my notes, not author's own words, etc.-- apply....
Yesterday I attended the Commerce Department's RFID in 2005 conference, at which I gave a talk on the futures of RFID. Eventually audio recordings of...
"David Weinberger is author of Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, and co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto. He is a contributor to the Many-to-Many group...
"danah boyd is a graduate student in the School of Information Management Systems at the University of California,...
"(Louis Rosenfeld is one of the co-founders of the field of information architecture, co-founder of Argus Associates, and co-author of six books,...
"Clay Shirky is an author and consultant who has written extensively on the Internet, open source, and social software. He is also a contributor to...
"One of the great pleasures of being a futurist is that it gives you license to ask interesting people strange questions. ...
Technology Review's Wade Roush has a short article about employee blogging that offers an interesting data-point on the growth of corporate-approved...
"We're releasing in the first of the 2005 TYF Perspectives today. It's an analysis of our 2004 IFTF Lifestyles Survey that focuses on a new segment...
"Facing and acute health care worker shortage, the United States will likely modify its visa policies and recruit aggressively abroad for workers,...
"Although the failure of the Clinton health reform effort rendered the issue politically radioactive, soaring costs to business and consumers will...
"In every country in the world, the mean age is increasing. Over the next three decades, increased life expectancy and low fertility rates will result...
"Our Ten-Year Forecast is famous for having outlived its own forecasts. So why turn it into a blog? ...
"We're in the process of creating a number of data sheets for the future of energy and the environment. Among the topics we'll address are future...
"The Institute has a deep practice in technology and society as part of its Technology Horizons program. Building on these insights, we will soon be...