IFTF: Future Now

Finding New Ideas for Governance from the Crowd

Jan 26, 2013 By Marina Gorbis

What if, together, we could imagine hundreds of civic innovations to improve our communities?...

The Nation Takes on Civic Hacking

Jan 24, 2013 By Bettina Warburg-Johnson

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced the National Day of Civic Hacking yesterday, and word is spreading fast....

More than 6,700 microforecasts about the future of governance!

Jan 23, 2013 By Rachel Hatch

Over 26 hours, 516 players contributed 6,762 microforecasts about the future of governance in the Connected Citizens Foresight Engine game....

PMWC Preview: Cancer Commons

Jan 23, 2013 By Sarah Smith

Health Horizons researchers will be attending the 2013 Personalized Medicine World Conference here in Silicon Valley, January 28-29. In the run-up to...

Building Policy Coherence Through Futures Thinking

Jan 22, 2013 By Tessa Finlev

For a good chunk of 2012 I worked with GeSCI, a Kenyan based organization founded by UN ICT Task Force and focused on building knowledge societies...

Remembering Aaron Swartz from the Amazon

Jan 18, 2013 By David Evan Harris

Memories of meeting Aaron Swartz at the 2009 World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil.

PMWC Preview: Personalizing Health Systems

Jan 17, 2013 By Ben Hamamoto

Health Horizons researchers will be attending the 2013 Personalized Medicine World Conference here in Silicon Valley, January 28-29. In the run-up to...

PMWC Preview: Colin Hill on Big Data Analytics

Jan 14, 2013 By Sarah Smith

Health Horizons researchers will be attending the 2013 Personalized Medicine World Conference here in Silicon Valley, January 28-29. In the run-up to...

Connected Citizens: Filling the Cracks in a Shrinking Public Sector

Jan 14, 2013 By Anthony Townsend

The wave of fiscal austerity that has swept across Europe and the United States in the last several years has created a challenging environment for...

What do Harrah’s Casino and Disney World Tell Us About Anticipatory Health?

Jan 14, 2013 By Ben Hamamoto

Disney World and Harrah's Casino preview a world in which our environments use personal data to customize our...

Are traditional institutions a technology on the verge of disruption?

Jan 11, 2013 By Devin Fidler

Each year, we hold a series of exclusive events for the organizations that support our core research programs. In our Fall 2012 Technology Horizons...

IFTF Remembers Robert B. Textor, Anticipatory Anthropologist

Jan 10, 2013 By Miriam Lueck Avery

Last week the originator of anticipatory anthropology passed away, peacefully. He was 89 years...

It's Official: Over 4,500 Ideas for Reinventing the Hospital

Jan 09, 2013 By Ben Hamamoto

On January 8—9, IFTF ran the 24-hour Future of the Hospital game on Foresight Engine, our collaborative forecasting platform, to help reinvent the...

Crowdsourced Inclusive Futures

Jan 09, 2013 By Tessa Finlev

Last November I was invited to speak to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) at their second biannual Human Rights Conference about...

Smart Cities: Crucibles of Citizen-Government Co-creation

Jan 09, 2013 By Anthony Townsend

"What if mayors ruled the world?" asked political scientist Ben Barber in a recent Long Now talk in San Francisco. All over the world, local...

Connected Citizens: Re-imagine How Government Works

Jan 08, 2013 By Jake Dunagan

What if we could re-program government together? What bugs would you fix? What would be the killer app? How would you combine citizen and government...

Remembering Andrew J. Lipinski 1920-2012

Jan 07, 2013 By Bob Johansen

Andrew J. Lipinski, a senior research fellow at IFTF from its earliest days in Connecticut until his retirement in the late 1980's, passed away on...

Seven Transformations for Children at Play

Jan 07, 2013 By Devin Fidler

IFTF has been studying smart machines and robotics for over 30 years. And all the way across the world the Lego Group first introduced its Mindstorms...

Future of the Hospital: Announcing Challenge #3

Jan 03, 2013 By Rachel Maguire

For 24 hours, starting January 8 at 9am PST, play the game to help reinvent the community hospital. Pre-register now at futureofhospitals.org....

Maker Cities

Jan 03, 2013 By Nicolas Weidinger

What does a city look like when each citizen has a sense of agency in shaping his or her own life, community, and city? What would it be like to live...

Awards + Judges: Future of the Hospital

Jan 03, 2013 By Sarah Smith

The Future of the Hospital Foresight Engine Game starts in less than one week! Here is a sneak peak at some of the awesome awards you could win if you...