IFTF: Future Now

Reducing Friction in online payments

Feb 26, 2010 By Mani Pande

This month’s Wired magazine has a cover story on the future of Money titled Money wants to be free. When I got the magazine in my mailbox at home, I...

Ends vs. Means and Persuasive Games

Feb 26, 2010 By Mathias Crawford

A video featuring Carnegie Mellon Professor of Entertainment Technology Jesse Schell has been making the rounds this week, and it touches on a number...

Consumer ultrasounds: looking inside yourself from the comfort of home

Feb 26, 2010 By Vivian Distler

Brian Dolan at MobiHealthNews has an interesting post on the future of "consumerization of medical devices." GE Healthcare recently released Vscan, an...

What's the Worst that Could Happen?

Feb 25, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

About a month ago, the World Health Organization released a statement condemning groups who claim that the WHO created a sense of fear and hysteria...

Increasing Global Resilience: Women in Peace Movements

Feb 25, 2010 By Tessa Finlev

Women are doing a lot of work to create equality and peace throughout Africa, not to mention the rest of the world. What’s more, as women come...

Biopolitics and activism of stress and inequality

Feb 25, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

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A Methodological Interlude: Alternative Futures and Deductive Forecasting

Feb 25, 2010 By Jake Dunagan

The "Manoa School of Futures Studies," led by Jim Dator at the University of Hawaii, has been training students (including me) in the theories and...

The Non-Sponsored Moment: Stephen Duncombe Interview

Feb 24, 2010 By Jake Dunagan

As part of our Future of Persuasion research, we are conducting interviews with scholars, activists, technologists, and other experts who have been...

Facebook Credits and Blended Reality

Feb 24, 2010 By Mani Pande

In 2009 IFTF’s Technology Horizons program published the blended reality report. Based upon the ethnographic research that we conducted we found that...

Venture Capital and Lightweight Innovation: The Growing Gap

Feb 24, 2010 By Anthony Townsend

James Suroweicki writes in this month's Technology Review looking at the looming crisis in venture capital. Suroweicki's analysis partly hinges on one...

The social contagion of physical activity, or how people love a challenge

Feb 24, 2010 By Vivian Distler

Manamana as persuasive technology

Feb 23, 2010 By Jason Tester

I just stumbled on a post about this novelty scale that has no numbers, only affirmations....

Games and Education / Games as Education

Feb 23, 2010 By Mathias Crawford

Last week the New York based Games for Learning Institute, in conjunction with NYU, hosted a lecture by game developer Will Wright. I've been thinking...

Neuromarketing and soup labels

Feb 23, 2010 By David Pescovitz

Several weeks ago, I posted about a possible resurgence in neuromarketing, using brain imaging and other physiological monitoring to directly measure...

Bollywood, Shahrukh Khan, Twitter and the art of persuasion

Feb 23, 2010 By Mani Pande

If you are a Bollywood fan then you have probably heard of Shahrukh Khan. If you don’t then check out the Wikipedia entry on him....

Wearing Your Medicine

Feb 23, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

Was your lunch yesterday 400 calories or 500 calories? Whatever the answer is, you probably don't know it. Which is what makes a prototype patch that...