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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?
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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
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News from the Future #67
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Mercury News columnist Chris O'Brien published a column this week about the power of the Internet and its potential to erode the power of nations and...
[img_assist|nid=3664|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=425|height=129]For the past few years, we've been keenly interested in how games can be...
Play it! Say it! from IFTF on Vimeo.We're excited to start releasing the winning presentations from the BodyShock the Future contest for ideas to...
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Far be it for me, as someone who is on a quest to find caffeinated breakfast food, to question the wisdom of fortifying anything with caffeine, but I...
Current US unemployment figures are likely to persist into the foreseeable future as a result of two technological forces: communication and desktop...
From time to time, my colleague Jake Dunagan cites a study showing that the image of a brain makes people more likely to believe that whatever they're...
Join Vivian Distler in conversation with Dr. Thomas Perls, founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of...
There's a well-known story in the food studies world involving the acceptance, and eventual dominance, of pre-made cake mixes. In the 1950s,...
An easy way to identify a future dilemma is to spot two polar, but entirely sensible, reactions to an emerging practice or...
Can playing a game online help you be healthier? Buster Benson thinks so.
TEDMED 2010 kicked off last Tuesday night with a performance by opera singer Charity Tilleman-Dick. At first I thought, "Well, she has a lovely...
How do you prepare for a job of the future? What kinds of skills will you need to have twenty or thirty years from now, what kind of worker will you...
Join Lyn Jeffery in conversation with Michael Chorost, discussing—among other things—his second book, World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of...
An interesting study sponsored by Unilever took a look at how background music and sound alter the perception of taste. Among other things, that...
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In contrast to the popular lore about achieving happiness by changing your thoughts, there's a new theory in town....
During the recent Breakthroughs to Cures game, which we ran in collaboration with the Myelin Repair Foundation, one of the key themes that emerged was...
There's a new twist happening in the Quantified Self space. What was previously only individuals reporting on their data gathering and occasional...
It's amazing what can happen in five years.
Yes, I hate to say it, but this is your chicken. If you've ever eaten hot dogs, chicken nuggets, or anything else made of mechanically separated meat,...