Institute For The Future

The PDF of our 2008 Tech Horizons research agenda is now online. The theme, "Blended Realities, Blended Lives," promises to be an interesting...

Several weeks ago, I wrote about a new video game designed to teach kids about nutrition. Developed by Kaiser Permanente and targeted at 9-10 year...

The headline of an article in SLNN.com (Second Life News Network) a few weeks ago announced, "Health loves a Second Life." That led me to the blog...

Several weeks ago, I wrote about a new player in the Health 2.0 world--ICYou, which serves as a YouTube-like repository of videos about...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched yesterday Health Games Research, an $8.25 million initiative to support research that promotes the quality...

Visualization tools will require a new visual literacy for employees. While many companies rely on a creative or design team for visual communication,...

A number of participants in our immersive fall exchange on the Future of Work expressed that they weren't sure how to apply what they learned to their...

After finishing up our Foodscapes workshop with a lively panel discussion, we kicked of our Fall Conference with dinner and a keynote address from...

I've never blogged live before, but this seems like a good time to start. I'm at the Claremont Resort & Spa in Berkeley, CA, listening to my...

Palo Alto's daily newspaper is a bit of a rag, but I like to read it because it has (almost) all the news that's fit to print--AP wire stories and...

AP has an interesting story this morning ("PCs Losing Their Relevance in Japan") about the decline of PC sales in Japan in recent...

The Pew Internet and American Life Project is a great source of information about online trends relating to health. A recent study revealed that 51%...

Another Smart Mobs post reveals that, for the last several years, Virginia Tech researchers have been developing efficient e-textiles — electronic...

Long-time friend of the Institute Howard Rheingold is the author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, and has a related blog dedicated to...

In our Global Health Economy Map of the Decade 2006-2016, we broadly defined health to include, among others, beauty, pharma, and food; we also noted...

We first talked about the need for standards for the social web back in 2005, when Mike Liebhold, Kathi Vian, and I presented our research report on...

The other day, my colleague, Lea Gamble, brought to my attention this headline: "Nestle outlines 'extreme food' build-up plan." Although I have been...

Yikes! It's been almost a full month since I last blogged. What the heck have I been doing? Slacking? . . . No, not really. We have been in full...

I spent a few days last week in Newcastle, England - a real gem of a town for tech history enthusiasts and urbanists. Newcastle is where the first...

"In "The New Seekers," The Spectator's David Jennings counters Cult of the Amateur author Andrew Keen's bleak vision of anarchy resulting from a...

I talked a lot in my presentation last week about how the Visible World can be seen in the financial sector, which is awash in data....

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I usually find interesting stories in sources more obscure than AP Wire. But sometimes, that's as good a place as any. I just learned about the...

I have previously taken note of Cigna's commitment to HopeLab's Re-Mission game ("CIGNA's got game"), and more recently have posted about Kaiser's...