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BOOKS BY IFTF THOUGHT LEADERS
The Nature of the Future
Marina Gorbis' inspiring portrayal of how new technologies enable networks of individuals to connect + share resources so that they—not big organizations—will solve many problems.
A Few Thousand Dollars
Robert E. Friedman
Leaders Make the Future
In this award-winning book, IFTF Distinguished Fellow Bob Johansen presents an expansive ten-year forecast of key future forces that will impact our world, pointing to the shift toward a global well-being economy, the growing impact of digital natives, and more.
The Reciprocity Advantage
Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn uncover what will be a huge innovation opportunity, presenting a model that shows how organizations can facilitate collaborative experimentation and new business.
Fight for $15
David Rolf
Memes to Movements: How the World's most viral media is changing social protest and power
An Xiao Mina
Cultures@siliconvalley (2nd edition)
J.A. English-Lueck
Get There Early
It’s the ultimate paradox for leaders: you can’t predict the future, but you must make sense of it in order to thrive. Bob Johansen shares techniques refined over fifty years by IFTF to help you navigate your own organization’s road to the future.
The New Leadership Literacies
Noted futurist Bob Johansen goes beyond skills and competencies to propose 5 new leadership literacies—combinations of disciplines, practices, and worldviews—that will be needed to thrive.
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly
Team Human
Douglas Rushkoff
FUTURE NOW MAGAZINE
Reconfiguring Reality
When Everything is MediaSTRATEGIC FORESIGHT MAPS
Bio:Made - An Exhibit of Future Creations
Where the tech revolution meets the bio revolution.
The urgent challenges we face at the personal and planetary levels are deeply rooted in biology. We will meet these challenges at the intersection of biology and technology, creating a bio:made future.
Centering Health 
Human + Machine Futures
Extending our Senses and Ourselves
Advances in technology will create new forms of human-machine symbiosis, expanding and even redefining what we can do with our five senses. This map examines the technological capacities and how they represent an emerging palette with which to create new products, services, systems, and experiences. How we use this palette will be colored by our beliefs, our priorities, and our values.
Igniting Change
Innovative Care Models in the Post-ACA Decade
The post-ACA decade offers unprecedented opportunities for leaders in health care to affect change. It presents a landscape for rethinking assumptions, relinquishing legacy practices, and combining promising experiments to remake health care at the systems level.
When Everything is Media: Forecasting a world of Ambient Communications
This research map explores what technology holds in the coming decade and details a world where the convergence of the Internet of Things, immersive media and advances in network speed will envelop us in a continual stream of information, merging our digital and physical worlds.
Blockchain Futures
Map of the Decade: 2017-2027
Reshaping the world at the intersection of money, technology, and human identity.
Future Food Experiences: Designing Good Food for the 21st Century
Future forces will intersect with inspired design to reshape the entire cycle of food activity, from production, distribution, and manufacturing to shopping and eating. At this intersection, there is a great opportunity to combine futures thinking—which explores a range of possibilities, motivations, and aspirations for the future—with design tools to reinvent all our encounters with food and transform the food system.
Health Aware World
Despite the tensions, the potential of a healthaware world is one in which aware objects and environments can help us manage our health in more persuasive and personalized ways. Use this map as a source of inspiration to imagine new tools, services, and strategies in a health-aware world.
Living Longer Aging Well
Redesigning our Experience
Consider this map a tool to redesign our future health, well-being, and technology in a truly person-centered way. By taking this multifaceted approach, we gain the insight to design products, services as we usher in an age of longevity.