IFTF: Future Now

It Doesn’t Have to Happen Here: Saving Our Democracy

Jan 25, 2017 By Mark Frauenfelder

We can and should take responsibility for shaping the future that we want. Marina Gorbis told this to over one hundred journalists, publishers,...

New Report Sheds Light on Economic, Technological, and Cultural Trends

Jan 23, 2017 By Jean Hagan

New Report Sheds Light on Economic, Technological and Cultural Trends Poised to Impact the Dallas-Fort Worth Region Over the Next Decade...

Terreform Exhibit - City of the Future

Jan 18, 2017 By Susanne Forchheimer

IFTF's store front on 225 Hamilton Ave currently holds the newly installed Terreform Exhibit. Check it out...

Feb 14 | Book talk: Ashton Applewhite - A Future Without Ageism

Jan 18, 2017 By Susanne Forchheimer

IFTF is honored to host author and activist Ashton Applewhite on Feb 14 at 10am, as she takes us through her book "This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto...

Podcast: Bob Johansen on the Future of Leadership

Jan 03, 2017 By Rebecca Chesney

The emerging world needs skills in managing dilemmas, not solving problems. Bob Johansen speaks with Second City Works, the business arm of The Second...

Jan 10 - How to Destroy Democracy: An urgent conversation

Dec 21, 2016 By Marina Gorbis

Institute for the Future invites you to join us January 10, 2017 for an eye-opening discussion about global politics, corruption, and our best hope...

Igniting Leadership in the Post-ACA Decade

Dec 20, 2016 By Rachel Maguire

Almost 7 years after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed and 5 years since it was upheld in the Supreme Court, leadership, foresight, and...

Eating for Change: 2017 Food Futures Lab Research Agenda

Dec 19, 2016 By Rebecca Chesney

Why do we eat what we eat? This has never been a simple question. Over the next decade, many of the basic assumptions we make about how, when, and why...

Making the Gig Economy Work for Everyone

Dec 16, 2016 By Mark Frauenfelder

IFTF had an open call for interested people to come to its offices in Palo Alto, California on Nov 30 & Dec 1, 2016 to participate in a two-day...

Podcast: Black Lives Rising (in STEM)

Dec 02, 2016 By Mary Kay Magistad

As the nation's first African American president winds up his tenure with majority approval ratings, African Americans in science and tech are...

Dispatch from the Future of Sanitation - 1st Global Toilet Business Innovation Summit

Nov 23, 2016 By Sarah Smith

On November 15-17 The Toilet Board Coalition hosted the 1st Global Toilet Business, Innovation, and Investment Summit in Mumbai, India. I participated...

Podcast: Trust, Faith & Trump

Nov 18, 2016 By Mary Kay Magistad

Trust and faith help any relationship, including the relationship between citizens and their government. What happens when trust is at a record low,...

Podcast: What does it mean to be human in an age of machines?

Nov 08, 2016 By Mark Frauenfelder

As we see more automation in the world, and as jobs are automated away, humans need to keep jumping to the next step of value and search for the...

Who owns your future?

Nov 02, 2016 By Tessa Finlev

We need to change the way we think about the future—from figuring out who is right about what will happen, to using a place that does not yet exist to...

Podcast: Borders and belonging

Oct 21, 2016 By Mary Kay Magistad

Few issues hit more of an emotional chord, or an emotional nerve than those around borders and belonging, immigration and...

Ten-Year Forecast 2017: Geographies of Transition

Oct 18, 2016 By Carol Neuschul

Join us in 2017 as we navigate the business landscape of the next decade and map the quickly-shifting boundaries of our organizations, industries, and...

Technology Horizons Fall 2016 Member Retreat: When Everything is Media

Oct 17, 2016 By Meagan Jensen

Technology Horizons members join IFTF for the Fall Research Retreat, New Experiences of Ambient Communications: When Everything is Media, on November...

Nov 2 Book Talk: Brian Christian - Algorithms to Live By

Oct 11, 2016 By Meagan Jensen

IFTF is honored to host Brian speaking about Algorithms to Live By on Wednesday, November 2 at 5:30 pm. Join us as we dig deeper into the computer...

Podcast: Rule Britannia

Oct 06, 2016 By Mary Kay Magistad

Is Britain's decision to free itself of EU control about sovereignty, identity or something else entirely? It's complicated, and often not in the ways...

IFTF Uncovers Seven New Worker Archetypes of the On-Demand Economy

Sep 30, 2016 By Jean Hagan

IFTF releases a new report aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of a new breed of worker in order to create a system that ensures a workable future...

Technology Horizons 2017 Research: Toward an Internet of Actions

Sep 27, 2016 By Meagan Jensen

Ubiquitous networking has transformed cyberspace into a pervasive layer atop our physical reality. Meanwhile, the emerging Internet of Things promises...

Podcast: Who are 'we'?

Sep 22, 2016 By Mary Kay Magistad

People have been moving around, and borders have been shifting around, for as long as there have been people. Who gets to say who belongs, and who...

Sept 29: David Rolf on the New Minimum Wage

Sep 19, 2016 By Susanne Forchheimer

Join us Sept 29 for a lunch conversation with David Rolf on the future of the labor movement in the U.S. David is president of SEIU 775 in Seattle and...

Meet Mike Zuckerman: Secret aid worker + IFTF Fellow

Sep 19, 2016 By Kathi Vian

Institute for the Future is pleased to announce that Mike Zuckerman is joining our community as an IFTF Fellow. Mike is a self-described culture...

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