Future Now
The IFTF Blog
2009 is an extraordinary year for thinking about the future, with an environment of extreme uncertainty and immediate pressures on virtually every...
Industry Compass 2.0 provides a framework to help you more effectively navigate the complex transformations on the horizon of the life sciences and...
As part of the drill, Institute for the Future, the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Art Center College of Design created After Shock— the first...
There have been lots of exciting developments surrounding Superstruct since its launch earlier this month. Thousands of people have setup game...
In 1968, Andy Warhol declared, "In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes." Maybe everyone being famous for 15 minutes is still part...
Superstruct in the News...
Chronicle the dark world of 2019. Then help us figure out how to fix it....
For some people, the holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year. For me, it's presidential election season. There is no such thing as too...
Twenty years ago, terms such as "sustainability," "environmentalism," and "health" were virtually unknown in business strategy circles. Today, all of...
In the wake of Ohio's lawsuit against Premiere Elections (the company formerly known as Diebold), a 2006 interview with Republican cyber-security...
We developed five video scenarios to illustrate our forecast of how biocitizens might use new media technologies in the next decade. All are in .mov...
In May 2008, the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council (CCRRC) publicly released the results of a year-long research endeavor by the Institute for the...
We often think, talk, and write about social networking and public spaces online. But it's easy to forget an important part of the modern-day...
At our Make the Future! booth at Maker Faire in May, we asked Fairegoers who swung by our booth to record 30 second of their future forecasts. We got...