Institute For The Future

In my project on the future of RFID, I spent some time looking at religious-- or more specifically, millenarian and apocalyptic-- arguments against...

I've been watching the Tour de France the last couple weeks, waiting to see if Lance Armstrong would end his career with a seventh win. (I hope he...

I recently agreed to review Michael Chorost's Rebuilt for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Since it's a very interesting book, and deals with...

Alex recently agreed to review Michael Chorost's Rebuilt for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Here's a preview......

I recently agreed to review Michael Chorost's Rebuilt for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Since it's a very interesting book, and deals with...

Leading European telecoms R&D and mobile services executives, equipment designers, and researchers from MIT and the Institute for the Future met...

Here are some bits from last week you don't want to miss:

Memo: Public Concerns and the Near Future of RFID

To help Technology Horizons Program members understand the long-term potential of RFID, the Institute for the Future (IFTF) has undertaken a project...

One of the places I visited when I was in England was the new James Martin Institute, a center for the study of science, civilization, and the future....

Remixable Apps and the Long Tail of the GeoWeb

I recently attended Where 2.0, a 2-day conference hosted by O'Reilly Media in San Francisco. The themes and projects featured at this event will be...

I'm in England for the next week, speaking at a conference at Oxford on the uses of science and technology studies in the business world, and doing...

Last year, while doing a project on the future of RFID, I spent some time looking at the future of the smart home. In that work, I came to three...

Jerry Ravetz is, so far as I can tell, the only other futurist (besides me) who had a previous career as an historian of...

I confess I don't normally read The Nation, but someone recently recommended William Greider's latest article, "Riding Into the Sunset." It touches on...

I'm reviewing John Markoff's new book, What the Dormouse Said, for the Los Angeles Times, and finished the review this afternoon. Not surprisingly, I...

"In case you didn't catch the article in the most recent issue of BusinessWeek, "The Power of Us" recaps many of the ideas and examples we were...

One day last year, while walking in downtown Palo Alto, I saw someone on the sidewalk, walking in circles, gesticulating and yelling. Homeless person,...

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In a recent talk at IDEO, Daniel Pink talked about taking a drawing class. The teacher asked them to begin by drawing a self-portrait. As he tells the...

Thanks to the good offices of Metacool, I'm in one of IDEO's ridiculously hip offices, listening to Daniel Pink talk about his new book, A Whole New...

There's a long interview with Richard Florida, of the "creative class" argument, in Salon magazine. Florida's latest book, The Flight of the Creative...

"Several people have blogged the Ten Year Forecast meeting, and I thought I'd point to their entries....

"The shift from traditional private property to non-exculdable, non-rivalrous regimes has been a major subject of this conference, and appears in...

"Speakers are J. D. Lasica (Web site and blog) and Greg Steltenpohl....