Institute For The Future

New Scientist has an article speculating on the potential cultural impact of Google Earth.

Let me state my hope that Pac-Man will perpetually be one of the first games to be brought into any new gaming medium, whether it's pervasive or...

"Here's some news in our focus areas you might have missed last week:If you have access to the Wall Street Journal Online, there was a great article...

The term pervasive gaming will always first conjure up images of one game: Majestic. I never actually played this, being out of the country for most...

While a new wave of users are geocoding informal or folksonomic contextual information by using new homegrown geotagging extenstions to google maps,...

The New York Times has a really interesting article today on several parallel projects to create clients for encrypted, privacy-concious peer-to-peer...

[Notes from the 27 July expert workshop on the future of science and technology.]...

[From the July 27 expert workshop.]...

I just got off the phone with Clay Shirky, who I used to teach with at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. I was interviewing him as part of...

[From the July 27 expert workshop on the future of science and technology.]...

What things haven't we talked about yet that we should include to fill in the gaps?...

Big question: What are they key breakthroughs in science and technology that will shape the world in the next 10-50 years?...

Larry Smarr (UCSD): Working on infrastructures to promote cross-disciplinary, academic-industry research; looking out at the future of the Internet...

"Technology Review published a survey that argues that while research labs were focused on ubiquitous computing, what we've built for ourselves is...

Just a social software-related straw in the wind.

Hello everyone! This is Rod Falcon, Research Director, at IFTF. This year I am working on building a global perspective on our user and technology...

One of our summer research associates forwarded me word of this new ranking of universities based on Web indicators:...

EDN has an article about the movement among builders of home automation systems to develop common standards and protocols. Sounds intensely boring?...

EDN has an article about the movement among builders of home automation systems to develop common standards and protocols. Sounds intensely boring?...

Issue #13 of Vodaphone's Receiver magazine hit the web last month with a special issue on mobile communicaitons in East Asia....

Last year, the Technology Horizons Spring Exchange explored the opportunities of cooperative strategy. And in June of last year, we delivered a...

A while ago, I noted the publication by Demos, a London-based think-tank, of Charles Leadbetter and Paul Miller's The Pro-Am Revolution: How...

Yet another review: this time, a review of the new Robert Noyce biography, forthcoming (probably in 2-3 weeks) in American Scientist....

"Here are some important links you may have missed:Although there is really nothing new in this product - most of the ideas were pioneered by the MIT...