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Edible Geography points toward a great blog post by Jim Davenport mapping where Americans live in relation to Starbucks. Among other things, he found...
It’s the International Year of Cooperatives and I just saw Shift Change, a great new documentary that’s got me more jazzed about them than ever. I...
I recently gave a keynote at the 2012 Code for America Summit, held at San Francisco's Mission Bay Conference Center, on "A New Civics for Smart...
Next week, IFTF will be one of the participants in the annual CrowdConf event reviewing progress in crowdsourcing. Looking through the topics to be...
My friends and I like to joke about how parents survived in the “olden days”--that is, the pre-I-Phone and pre-i-Pad era of childrearing. “How did...
If you are a student, a teacher, a maker, or a thinker, I'd like to invite you to participate in a project I've been developing called WikiSeat, and I...
Educational? Yes. Therapeutic? Possibly. But these are side benefits; at heart, play is about fun. And the future of play is about taking all the...
We’re at the ground floor of the Drone Age....
IFTF has been mapping the intersections between technology, the human experience, and the future for more than 44 years. We use these mapping...
We like to look to hidden places to find some of our most intriguing signals about the future--and in this case, an unusual crime seems to be pointing...
One of the paradoxes of technological change is that as new tools are introduced, people often remain tethered to their existing tools and practices....
The experience of migration, of moving to a new habitat or locale, brings with it a magic-like experiences of the new environments. The relationship...
Sumi Das from CBS interactive stopped by the Institute for the Future this week for a video an interview with Mike Liebhold exploing IFTF's ideas...
Design and art have long been viewed as distinct fields of inquiry from science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), but the contemporary...
During the time of the dinosaurs, Antarctica was covered with tropical rain forests. Overtime, as the planet cooled, and ice caps formed on the...
The BBC has a great article up exploring subconscious efforts to fight crime through design. Among the ideas: Cover walls and buildings with pictures...
Via a slightly old article in Good Magazine comes word of a great student project out of Australia called StethoCloud that is aimed at using the...
On July 30-31, the Institute for the Future, in collaboration with Aalto University in Finland, invited a dozen practical visionaries to reveal the...
Author Anya Kamenetz came in recently and presented some hard truths on education. First of all it is wildly expensive. Second, it is not accessible...
You might expect that a hacker camp, like Toorcamp, is full of shady individuals who want to break into your computer and steal your data. Often...
Robert H. Girling’s latest book, The Good Company, uniquely sets the business in the broader context of its relationship with people, the environment...
