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Collaborative Consumption and Food Distribution

May 10, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

Danielle Sacks' recent article on sharing has gotten a fair amount of attention, and rightly so, for providing a great overview of the sharing...

Announcing the winners of the California Dreams contest!

May 04, 2011 By IFTF Staff

How Products Are Shaping Social Networks

May 04, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

I'm not typically inclined to blog about evil genius, but it's hard to know how else to describe the redesign of an e-cigarette Blue Cigs....

If This Blog Post Offends You, I Have Insurance

Apr 25, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

Worried that your edgy new advertising campaign might offend a lot more customers than it attracts? Worry no more. The CBC has a great story about a...

SIGNALS: Reprogrammable Chips, Super Corn, Transport, Robot Pharmacists, Indoor Location, Bots, NFC, Flesh, Robot Farmers

Apr 19, 2011 By Sean Ness

Reprogrammable Chips Could Enable Instant Gadget Upgrades (source) #TechTYFThe Battle Royale for Super Corn (source) #FoodFuturesRoadmap to a Single...

Augmented Empathy

Apr 19, 2011 By Rachel Hatch

Today, at IFTF's Technology Horizons workshop on the Future of Open Fabrication, Dominic Muren spoke on the future of manufacturing. His presentation...

SIGNALS: Avatars, Solar, Tar Sands, Shock Wave Engine, SketchChair, Robotics, Biopunk, Algae, Virtual Currency

Apr 14, 2011 By Sean Ness

3-D Avatars Could Put You in Two Places at Once (source) #TechTYF #FutureOfVideoGoogle Invests $168 Million Towards the World’s Largest Solar Power...

Exploring Social Production in Education

Apr 12, 2011 By Anna Davies

One of the key themes of our Ten-Year Forecast retreat last month was the concept of social production - production that draws on contributions from...

SIGNALS: Obesity, Wind Farms, Eye-Tracking, Printable Buildings, Robotics Badge, Batteries, Fracking, Contagious Solar, iPads

Apr 11, 2011 By Sean Ness

Tackling Obesity with Neuroscience and Clever Design (source) #Neuroscience #FoodFutures #ObesityGermany May Replace 17 Nuclear Power Reactors With...

SIGNALS: Saudia Arabia, Alternative Energy, Rights After Death, UAVs

Apr 05, 2011 By Sean Ness

Saudi Arabia to Spend $100 Billion on Renewable Energy (source) #AltEnergySaving the Planet: Just Like Cleaning Our...

We Know What You Want

Apr 05, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

As someone who spends most of his waking hours listening to Pandora, I haven't just accepted the idea that algorithms can get me what I want, but...

SIGNALS: Medical Data, Wind, Solar, Milk, Displays, Water, Energy, Leaf, Robots, Climate Change, Cyborgs

Mar 31, 2011 By Sean Ness

Thomas Goetz TED Talk: It is Time to Redesign Medical Data (source) #MedicalData #VisualizationUS Wind Energy Installations Collapsed in...

The Future of the Value of Data

Mar 28, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

Some of the more interesting questions that emerge from using advanced analytics and algorithms to drive our understandings of health surround a...

SIGNALS: space junk, 3d printing, biosensors, neuroscience, personhood, nuclear, darpa, resiliency, printable insects

Mar 23, 2011 By Sean Ness

NASA Working On Laser System To Zap and ‘Displace’ Space Junk (Source) #FreeSpace #TechTYF3D printing method advances electrically small antenna...

Engineering Health Care—HC2020 Perspective

Mar 22, 2011 By Richard Adler

Accelerating the Process of Change...

From Personalized to Empathetic Technologies

Mar 21, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

There's a lot to like about Eli Pariser's recent TED talk about the ways in which algorithms designed to personalize our experiences of digital...

SIGNALS: battery, robots, 3D printing, kidney, biofuel, LED, Wave Disk, Phase Change Memory

Mar 16, 2011 By Sean Ness

New Sumitomo Electric Battery 90% Cheaper Than Lithium Ion (Source) #AltEnergyOur depressing robot overlords (Source) #IFTFRobotsEADS's Airbike is a...

The Right to (Local) Food Risks

Mar 15, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

Local food activism typically involves demanding healthier food as part of local services, attempting to create healthier, more connected local food...

Makerbot Day 5 (Part 1/2): It's Alive! (sort of)

Mar 14, 2011 By Mathias Crawford

I have no doubt that February 26 will go down in history as a momentous day. On Saturday morning, after an evening spent fine tuning the current of my...

US Government Exploring Health and Identity Information Ecologies

Mar 08, 2011 By Michael Liebhold

It's satisfying to see that since IFTF's recently released 2008-2009 research: Health and Health Care 2020 Perspective Report, containing my own short...

Tools for Understanding Well-Being Ecosystems

Mar 08, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

Popular Science has a great article examining the future of understanding health ecosystems. As the story's author Virginia Hughes describes it,...

SIGNALS: Adaptive Power, AltEnergy, TechTYF, Persuasion, IFTFRobots, KidsTech

Mar 04, 2011 By Sean Ness

Beijing to pinpoint and trail citizens via cellphone (Source) #AdaptivePowerARPA-E: How the Government Agency With a Name Out of Lost Could "Win the...

Neurocentric Health: Moving into the Mainstream

Mar 03, 2011 By Jake Dunagan

In our recent research, the Health Horizons program has been tracking the continuing maturity of what we call neurocentric health--the idea that the...

What is the Relationship Economy?

Mar 03, 2011 By Rachel Hatch

Today, IFTF Research Affiliate, Jerry Michalski came to IFTF to share about his work on the Relationship Economy. The next social and industrial...

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