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IFTF News from the Future #80
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Designing an Anticipatory Institution
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The single most important law of futures studies is that there are no facts about the future. Only fictions. Ramez Naam lives by that law, having...
[Reposted from Medium] IFTF Fellows prototype Positive Platforms for tomorrow’s on-demand economy: In less than ten years, according to some...
ToS. RATs. IP. CFAA. ECPA. AML. KYC. HIPAA. The alphabet soup of legalese and regulation surrounding technology is enough to make the most seasoned...
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Telepathy. ESP. Mentalism. Whatever you call it, the ability to communicate thoughts, feelings, or experiences without using our known sensory...
CBC News' On The Money talks with IFTF's Marina Gorbis about automation, human-machine partnerships, and the future of work....
Private income adjusted mortgage & student loan products: engineering a system for engendering economic equitability...
New ‘Does College Matter?’ Podcast Discusses Value of a College Degree and Future of Work: The third season of the Federal Reserve Bank of San...
(From Future Now, Issue I) Music has always been a huge part of wearable technology—but most of the innovation has been devices for listening, not...
Could bio-based purchasing bring us closer to our better selves? Efforts to automate our personal lives are nothing new. We use alarm clocks to...
On Tuesday, August 15th, the Institute for the Future’s Food Futures Lab will be hosting Navina Khanna of the HEAL Food Alliance as part of the...
When talking about the future of wearable computing, many people assert that it presents huge opportunities for assistive technology. But what is...
In 2030 every organization will be a technology organization and as such businesses need to start thinking today about how to future-proof their...
Have you ever wondered if your job will exist in 2 years, or if it'll be automated by then? What if you could purchase an insurance product that pays...
At Institute for the Future we have been experimenting deeply in the frontiers of virtual reality journalism and immersive research environments....
A new Institute for the Future report finds that California Community Colleges’ Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy initiative is reorienting...
Today is World Refugee Day, and IFTF Fellow Mike Zuckerman has been on the ground in the world’s oldest refugee settlement—the Nakivale settlement in...