IFTF: Future Now

How did you sleep last night?

Dec 11, 2009 By Vivian Distler

As my colleagues know, that I am blogging at this hour of the morning is an indication that I have had a bad night's sleep. I am not alone....

IFTF Researcher Testifies at Senate Hearing on Research Parks and Job Creation

Dec 10, 2009 By Anthony Townsend

Yesterday, I traveled to Washington to testify at a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on "Research Parks and Job...

The Future of Finding Nothing

Dec 07, 2009 By Bradley Kreit

Systems Biology has begun to gain attention as one of several new life sciences aimed at fundamentally reshaping the ways we understand how humans...

Neurocentric Retail

Dec 03, 2009 By Bradley Kreit

One of the questions I've begun to wonder about as we continue looking into the role of neuroscience in the future of health is where we'll start to...

Do We Have Mathematical Instincts?

Nov 20, 2009 By Bradley Kreit

At our Health Horizons conference earlier this week, we spent some time discussing the challenges of communicating future risks to every day people...

IFTF Comments on Senate Bill for Science Park Grants and Loans

Nov 20, 2009 By Anthony Townsend

Respectfully submitted by Anthony Townsend Research Director Institute for the Future

REMINDER: Join us for our first FutureCast

Nov 19, 2009 By Kathi Vian

Guest expert: Arthur Brock on the future of alternative currency and open money...

FutureCast: Arthur Brock on Alternative Currencies

Nov 16, 2009 By Tessa Finlev

IFTF is happy to announce that we will be introducing a new FutureCast podcast series, starting Friday, November 20, at 11 am Pacific Time. Our first...

Betting on Risky Genes

Nov 10, 2009 By Bradley Kreit

A provocative feature in this month's Atlantic on a new way to think about genetic variations: Not as switches that confer or protect against disease...

IFTF announces new FutureCast series...starting November 20

Nov 10, 2009 By Kathi Vian

IFTF is happy to announce that we will be introducing a new FutureCast podcast series, starting Friday, November 20, at 11 am Pacific Time. Our first...

Scratch and Computational Thinking

Nov 09, 2009 By Mathias Crawford

I've been thinking a lot about the growth in programming and computational skills that will be required in a world in which Everything is...

Mapping Kenya's largest slum

Nov 06, 2009 By Tessa Finlev

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When Everything is Programmable Digital Stories

Nov 05, 2009 By Tessa Finlev

As a part of the year-long Technology Horizons Program research task, When Everything is Progammable: Life in a Conmputational Age, the research team...

Behavioral Genetics in the Court Room

Nov 03, 2009 By Bradley Kreit

A court in Italy has shortened the prison sentence of a convicted murderer due to the prisoner's heightened genetic predisposition for violence,...

Democratizing Food Science

Oct 29, 2009 By Bradley Kreit

Earlier in the week, I was trying to pass along a research article to a colleague and inadvertently sent her a recipe for home-brewed...

A fun twist on skip-stop elevators and stairs

Oct 28, 2009 By Vivian Distler

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A trail of breadcrumbs leads to food facts

Oct 28, 2009 By Vivian Distler

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Please Complete a Genome Scan with Your Mortgage Application

Oct 27, 2009 By Bradley Kreit

Certain genetic mutations can significantly contribute to the amount of credit card debt a person holds, according to a new study by Jan-Emmanuel...

In Defense of Generalists

Oct 27, 2009 By Anthony Townsend

The last decade has been witness to the rise of the geeks. What began as a glorification of tech entrepreneurs making it big from the rise of the IT...