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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
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | July
Jul 27, 2022
IFTF News From the Future #76
Jul 14, 2022
What Exactly is Futures Thinking?
Jun 28, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #75
Jun 23, 2022
CA 100 MEGA Scenarios
Jun 22, 2022
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
Dec 22, 2021
2011 marks a watershed for aging in America. This year, the first baby boomers reach the age of 65, making them senior citizens by most definitions. ...
Stirrings of unrest in the digital manor economy...
Re-balancing our unsustainable, massively inequitable world seems daunting, but we have no other choice. We see a decade of unprecedented change and...
Over the weekend, the Institute for the Future lost one of our co-founders, Paul Baran, who passed from complications from lung cancer. He was 84...
On December 3, Marina appeared on Bloomberg News Live with Lisa Murphy to discuss the current United States unemployment landscape, and where it might...
What if you could get any resource you needed? Remove any obstacle? Change any practice? Collaborate across any boundary to accelerate medical...
California Dreams Video 1 from IFTF on Vimeo. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEINSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE ANNOUNCES CALIFORNIA DREAMS: ...
IFTF today released the results of its social impact research project, designed to provoke citizens to imagine and build a sustainable future for...
The future is a high-resolution game. Never before has humanity been able to explore the emerging landscape in such detail, to measure the forces of...
For 11 weeks IFTF collected ideas from around the world in the BodyShock The Future contest to improve the future of healthy bodies and...
On Thursday, July 22, IFTF's Director of Technology Horizons, Lyn Jeffery hosted the first Ubiquitous Media Studio (@ubistudio) mini-workshop and...
I worry about the future of Chatroulette. This widely successful site where random strangers from around the world can chat with each other using...
INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE ANNOUNCES BODYSHOCK:CALL FOR ENTRIES ON IDEAS TO TRANSFORM LIFESTYLES AND THE HUMAN BODY TO IMPROVE HEALTH IN THE NEXT...
David Pescovitz and Jason Tester spoke at the TEDxSoMa conference, an independently produced TED-style event held at the Parisoma Innovation Loft on...
On May 21, IFTF's Executive Director, Marina Gorbis, will be co-hosting the TEDxSoMa event, an independently produced TED-style experience designed to...
On May 21, IFTF's Executive Director, Marina Gorbis, will be co-hosting the next TEDxSoMa event, an independently produced TED-style experience...
A couple months ago, I interviewed Wired contributing editor and Quantified Self co-host Gary Wolf as part of our Health Horizons' HC2020 Perspectives...
Last Thursday evening, IFTF hosted a networking and idea exchange event in preparation for World Entrepreneurship Day (WED). The organization...
IFTF is pleased to welcome Alexandra Carmichael as our newest Research Affiliate. Alex's work will be primarily anchored in our Health Horizons team,...
"My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games." - Jane McGonigal...
Institute for the Future is very proud to announce Phillip Torrone, senior editor of MAKE magazine, as our guest for the 3rd installment of our...
"Reality is broken," says IFTF's Jane McGonigal. "And we all need to tap into a collective sense of urgent optimism—as well as the ability and...