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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
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IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | July
Jul 27, 2022
IFTF News From the Future #76
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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
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News From the Future #70
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News From the Future #69
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IFTF News from the Future #68
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IFTF is seeking a Director for our Food Futures Lab to help lead research and foresight for food and food systems, develop a multi-year vision for the...
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IFTF's Artist in Residence Catherine Sarah Young shares an update from her inspiring work using art to catalyze conversations about climate change...
I'm Milton Chen, and I've had a long career opening the doors of learning to children through programs and platforms like Sesame Street from Sesame...
An urgent public dialogue is unfolding about the state of the US workforce and its prospects for the next decade as a result of changing labor...
[Reposted from Medium] The battles between Uber and taxi companies and the 1099 vs. W-2 debateare just the first signs of the upheaval emerging with...
Happy holidays! I’m Jane McGonigal. You may know me as the author of games and books like Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter. You may not know that I’m...
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During IFTF’s Workable Futures Initiative convening in October, titled Positive Platforms for a Workable Future, we identified several urgent issues...
Over the last several years, IFTF's Technology Horizons Program has explored our urban futures with the help of leading thinkers, artists, activists...
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Join IFTF's Food Futures Lab researcher, Sarah Smith, at the Real Future Fair Nov 6-7 in San Francisco....
When looking to the future, how do we separate the signals from the noise? Public Radio International's Mary Kay Magistad speaks with Marina Gorbis...
In 2016, IFTF's Technology Horizons program will embark on a year-long exploration of the reinvention of communication to map the rapidly changing...
The Apocalypse Project: House of Futures has finally launched at the Future Gallery of IFTF. Free and open to the public, the 7-month exhibition...
IFTF joins Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller and Maya Shankar, Senior White House Advisor, for Behavioral Finance Conference in Washington,...
As part of the 2015 research on Epicenters of Food Innovation, IFTF's Food Futures Lab went to try the newly opened San Francisco restaurant, Eatsa, a...
This week our Workable Futures Initiative hosted leading-edge thinkers from policy, platforms, social innovation, worker advocacy, philanthropy,...
Technology is fundamentally reshaping the way we work, the way we think about jobs and labor, and, the way we organize to get things done in everyday...
It’s 7pm on a Friday in August. I’m waiting with nervous anticipation to receive a really interesting introduction. I’m about to meet my own brain,...