IFTF: Future Now

FutureCast: Dean Eckles on Mobile Persuasion (Oct 14, 12pm PT)

Oct 11, 2010 By Maureen Kirchner

Join Lyn Jeffery in conversation with Dean Eckles, discussing how we interact socially through communication technologies as well as the “social”...

On Anticipatory Quarantines

Oct 11, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

A leading researcher at Microsoft last week suggested that computers that have been infected with viruses should be, in effect, quarantined from...

You're Not Popular Enough for the Flu Shot

Oct 04, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

I'm a little late to this great study by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler about the possibilities of using social network analysis to predict flu...

Freezing Ourselves: Medicine of the Future?

Sep 30, 2010 By Alexandra Carmichael

When I was nine, I used to wonder whether it would be more painful to freeze to death or burn to death. I vividly imagined both scenarios, and decided...

2010 Map of the Decade: Connect Four Game Master Guide

Sep 30, 2010 By Maureen Kirchner

Do you remember the game from the 1970s, Connect Four? Originally published by Milton Bradley (now owned by Hasbro), the game was played on a vertical...

Microfinancing Science

Sep 27, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

Via Science Insider comes word of an intriguing effort to bring the concept of microfinance to scientific research. Called SciFlies is reminiscent of...

Explore the World of Superstruct

Sep 24, 2010 By Maureen Kirchner

Superstruct was a massively multiplayer forecasting game, created by the Institute for the Future, and played by more than 7000 citizen...

Announcing the BodyShock Winners!

Sep 22, 2010 By Alexandra Carmichael

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 1st annual BodyShock The Future competition. With 109 design entries, it was tough to narrow it down to...

How Our Bodies are Becoming Social

Sep 21, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

As part of the Chronicle of Higher Education's series on ideas and issues that will define the coming decade, Alondra Nelson writes about an idea...

Which resilient future? As many as we can imagine.

Sep 17, 2010 By Miriam Lueck Avery

“I’ll be dead by then. Shot.”

What if Self-Tracking Goes Mainstream?

Sep 17, 2010 By Alexandra Carmichael

Does the future include everyone measuring themselves in some way and contributing that data to research? Quite possibly, but it’s more complicated...

What will this next decade look like?

Sep 15, 2010 By Maureen Kirchner

The future is a high-resolution game. Never before has humanity been ...

Laughter might really be the best medicine, and money *can* buy happiness (at least to some extent)

Sep 14, 2010 By Vivian Distler

This weekend, I read with interest an article that appeared in the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago entitled, "The Laughing Guru." Turns out that...

Looking Beyond Standardized Foods

Sep 12, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

A few months ago, I happened upon an outstanding, if brief article in Wired about all of the processes involved in making a bag of Cheetos. My...

What if health care came with a warranty?

Sep 10, 2010 By Rachel Maguire

Synthetic Biology 101

Sep 09, 2010 By Alexandra Carmichael

2010 Map of the Decade

Sep 08, 2010 By Sean Ness

The future is a high-resolution game. Never before has humanity been able to explore the emerging landscape in such detail, to measure the forces of...