Institute For The Future

Tech frontiers and social change has been central to the Institute's work since the beginning. More recently, we've been trying to make our work more...

The fall Technology Horizons conference, "Putting People at the Center," started tonight. It builds on "Zones of Instability" work we recently...

In the course of continuing the work that Anthony Townsend and I did on science cities, I recently came across a London think-tank, the Work...

In the course of continuing the work that Anthony Townsend and I did on science cities, I recently came across a London think-tank, the Work...

I am very pleased to present the latest report for Tech Horizons members, Zones of Instability: A Context for Technology Adoption (SR-1032)!...

Last week I gave an impromptu talk at the Royal College of Art, outlining the end of cyberspace argument and its implication for interaction design....

Andrea Saveri, Howard Rheingold, Kathi Vian, and Ming-Li Chai with a team at Herman Miller have released a report on applying knowledge of cooperation...

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has some thoughts on the future of IT infrastructure that dovetail with ideas we've been exploring. An...

I follow Peter Neumann's RISKS List, and always find interesting (and usually scary) stuff in it. Today it pointed to a post by engineer and pilot...

I just came across a ranking of countries by "digital opportunity" but together by the International Telecommunications Union... it's an interesting...

Today one of my colleagues at the Institute and I finished up a draft of a piece on the future of biomimicry. We've been working on it for a while,...

Incredibly, the Indian tech sector is growing fast enough to outstrip the supply of high-quality technical workers, according to the New York...

Korea is moving full-steam ahead into the world of IPTV early in 2007, now that a tussle over regulatory authority has been resolved, according to a...

A recent article in The Guardian reports that "[a]s the virtual workplace becomes more prevalent, many staff find teamwork difficult to...

Like many new sciences, the nascent field of biomimicry has several paradigmatic discoveries that attract lots of attention both in the press and the...

A recent article in The Guardian reports that "[a]s the virtual workplace becomes more prevalent, many staff find teamwork difficult to...

I am pleased to present the latest report for TH members: The Many Faces of Context Awareness: A Spectrum of Technologies, Applications, and Impacts...

On Sept. 23 China announced the launch of the world's largest pure next-generation Internet. Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) will replace the...

"Flexible, plastic electronics have been in the pipeline for quite some time, but University of Cambridge postdoctoral researcher Stéphanie Lacour is...

SR-1003 The Global Health Economy Map of the Decade 2006...

Techdirt points us towards a novel idea for slowing down the need for more power plants. To even out the daily, fluctuating electricity demand curve,...

Grandkids having their gaming devices co-opted by their elders is a looming threat. Okay...that's a bit of an exageration, however, the popularity of...

via SmartMobs,...

There is a post at the Machine Learning (Theory) blog which discusses online collaborative research and how the right system could take the lead with...