IFTF: Future Now

From #10YF2014: 3D-Printed Cities

May 29, 2014 By Jamais Cascio

During the 2014 Ten-Year Forecast Annual Retreat, Jamais Cascio explored the potential of 3D printing to change the way we rebuild, restore, and...

As Fitbits for Feelings Emerge, Whither Empathy?

May 28, 2014 By Eri Gentry

Are we losing touch with one another? Are we sinking towards something like Roman civilization, when bloodthirsty spectators eagerly watched men fight...

Maker Cities NYC Immersion Storify now available

May 27, 2014 By Maureen Kirchner

On May 20-21, our Maker Cities team led a group of research sponsors on a discovery journey into the maker culture of New York. Now you can share the...

#MakerCities and NYC Museum Media Labs: Day 1!

May 22, 2014 By Alex Goldman

Alex from the Maker Cities team at Day 1 of our hackathon with NYC Museum Media Lab Meetup Group.

From #10YF2014: The End of Prisons

May 19, 2014 By Tessa Finlev

The 2014 Ten-Year Forecast explored the landscape of change over the next decade by inviting attendees to contemplate ten projects that—if...

Maker Cities and NYC Museum Media Labs

May 17, 2014 By Meagan Jensen

If we set aside the traditional view of art museums as places to store and view art, what new roles open up for these institutions in cities where...

Myanmar Futures Exchange 2014

May 15, 2014 By Lindsea K. Wilbur

It's become a truism of our age that the world is changing at an accelerating pace, and uncertainty is great. I recently returned from a place where...

How Block by Block Creativity can Mute the Effects of Inequality

May 13, 2014 By David Thigpen

As politicians grapple with the corrosive effects of gross economic inequality on a long-term macro scale, what kinds of things can be effective on a...

IFTF Gallery for the Future hosts first popup exhibit

May 05, 2014 By Jean Hagan

The IFTF Gallery for the Future presents our inaugural exhibit, a collection of video works by the Global Lives Project, produced from 2004 to 2014....

Announcing IFTF's 2014 Fellows

May 02, 2014 By Maureen Kirchner

The unknown, urgent future calls for practical visionaries who ask provocative questions and seek actionable, impactful answers. The IFTF Future for...

10YF2014: Recoloring the World

Apr 29, 2014 By Maureen Kirchner

On May 1-2, the 2014 Ten-Year Forecast Annual Retreat explores the landscape of change over this next decade by inviting attendees to contemplate ten...

Maker Cities in Transition

Apr 24, 2014 By Alex Goldman

On April 16, IFTF's Maker Cities partnered with the Global Lives Project to host a panel and knowledge sharing event in San...

#IFTFWork: Automated fast food and swarming?

Apr 23, 2014 By Bettina Warburg

IFTF has been looking at the future of work for many years. We know that work is breaking apart and being reassembled in a different way today than...

Maker Cities at Burning Man Global Leadership Conference

Apr 17, 2014 By alex goldman

On Sunday, April 6th, Alex Goldman and Rebecca Chesney spoke at the Burning Man Global Leadership Conference in San Francisco. See what ideas they...

Maker City Shenzhen: Global Hub for Makers and Manufacturers

Apr 01, 2014 By Lyn Jeffery

Leading up to our Maker Cities immersion in Shenzhen's maker culture, here are four of our China + makers research pieces from the last three years....

Urban Acupuncturists: Mexico City Maker Field Report #1

Apr 01, 2014 By Sara Skvirsky

From March 19-20, IFTF’s Technology Horizons program traveled to Mexico City to explore its emerging maker culture, community, and movement. It was an...

[Freespace]: Experiencing the Commons

Apr 01, 2014 By Lindsea K. Wilbur

Your faithful social investigator hit the streets with the Inventor's Toolkit in hand to explore the opening of the new [Freespace] (1011 Market...

Future of Peacebuilding

Mar 27, 2014 By Tessa Finlev

Tessa Finlev on new networks of nonviolence

Leapfrog Democracies @ Personal Democracy Forum

Mar 25, 2014 By David Evan Harris

UPDATE: We've added a video of David Evan Harris' talk on Leapfrog Democracies at the Personal Democracy Forum 2014 below....

Inventing a New Internet: Learning from Icarus

Mar 21, 2014 By Kathi Vian

In Greek Mythology, Icarus was able to fly on wings made of wax and feathers, but he flew too close to the sun, which melted the wax, and he fell into...

A+? B-? Californians start grading their state

Mar 21, 2014 By Bettina Warburg

What do Californians care about? Ken Goldberg, robotics professor at UC Berkeley and IFTF Advisor, is asking just this question. Yesterday, his Data &...