Institute For The Future

"Briains, implants, robot arms, oh my!"

Celeste Biever writes in NewScientist about a man who uses brain implants to extend his capabilities....

SwapThing

Yesterday, Jessica Hardwick came to IFTF to give a talk about her company, SwapThing, which "enables the trade and barter of any combination of items...

Recently the Institute hosted a talk by Jessica Hardwick, the co-founder of Swapthing. As she describes it, Swapthing is "eBay for barter, and a...

A short forever ago (May 2004), I wrote a piece for my Red Herring blog about carpooling, digital identities, and the possibility of turning underused...

A few years ago, we published an article in Ten Year Forecast on the future of market-based environmental incentives, such as cap and trade markets....

Someone recently gave me a copy of a recent article, in Fortune, "Pack Mentality," that extracts the "free-market lessons of long-distance bike...

Last year we interviewed Danfoss Universe futurist Peter Hesseldahl on collective intelligence. Peter has recently released Snapshots Fra Fremtiden,...

"At the recent Technology Horizons Spring Exchange, I forecasted that the "bionic man" may finally become a reality in the next few decades. This...

About a year ago when I was contemplating moving to California, I envisioned a new kind of housing - basically a framework that you could bolt on...

"Please save November 6-8, 2006 for the Tech Horizons Fall Exchange! We will gather at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood Shores, CA for an exploration of...

As part of my ongoing work on the end of cyberspace (the subject of a recent TYF piece), I just read Vincent Mosco's The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power,...

As part of my ongoing work on the end of cyberspace, I recently read Vincent Mosco's The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and...

As a longtime advocate of a geospatial web, I'm constantly alert for signs that mobile wireless mobile carriers are seeing benefits of opening up...

Wired brings us a story about test tube meat. ...

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Last month I wrote a piece on the future of personal fabrication technologies, and their potential impact on factories and manufacturing. There are...

Mapping cyberspace

"The current issue of TheThe current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education features an engaging article about how social scientists are creating...

This week's The Economist has a fantastic survey of logistics. It is a great survey of the explosive growth of outsourcing of logistics in many...

Squatters and Innovation

As we start framing out the forthcoming Technology Horizons memo on "Cannibalism and Co-operation in the New Infrastructure", we've decided to frame...

Where are the world's billionaires

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All the World

"I'll open mine, if you open yours..."

Kristopher Tate, founder of Zooomr, wanted access to Flickr's API. Stewart Butterfield, Flickr's founder, initially said no, but then had a change of...

Engineering a better physicist

The physicsWeb have an interesting article about the distance between the fields of engineering and physics and comments on what the outcome of...

"A materials scientist from Sandia National Laboratories argues that nanoscale computer simulations can actually provide more detailed info than...