IFTF: Future Now

Commons Process Appropriated for a Tiered Internet

May 10, 2006 By Michael Liebhold

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From always-on to always-on-you computing?

May 09, 2006 By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

It's an article of faith among scholars in the field of science and technology studies that the design of technologies, and the ways they're evaluated...

longterm risk management in rural China

May 09, 2006 By Lyn Jeffery

There are many new risks in contemporary China--the risk of losing one's job and being subject to a free labor market, the risk of becoming priced out...

Reputation...who has it?

May 07, 2006 By Sean Ness

Auren Hoffman's new company, RapLeaf is up and running. He writes about a book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, that I read back in January. ...

Managing risk through networks

May 06, 2006 By Jan English-Lueck

In managing and communicating risk people can mobilize a variety of cultural tools. Melora, one of the people in our Silicon Valley portion of GEN's...

Article on the Indian consumer from Ambidextrous magazine

May 05, 2006 By Mani Pande

I just wrote an article on the changing Indian consumer culture for Ambidextrous, a magazine published by the Stanford School of Design. If you are...

The Problem With Cheap Laptops

May 05, 2006 By Anthony Townsend

Those of you who also are members of IFTF's Ten Year Forecast program may have read our exclusive interview with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the...

Larry Smarr: Keynote Speaker at Upcoming Conference

May 04, 2006 By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Larry Smarr, Founding Director California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology and Professor, Computer Science & Engineering,...

China's Independent Internet

May 03, 2006 By Michael Liebhold

While preparing for a seminar on the future of China's Internet hosted by IFTF colleague Lyn Jeffery leader of IFTF's Virtual China project (blogged...

Google aggregates knowledge internally as well

May 03, 2006

via CooperationCommons blog,...

DIY television takes you to Beijing

May 02, 2006 By Lyn Jeffery

Danwei TV now has its own website here. Danwei TV is the brainchild of the authors of the excellent Chinese media blog, Danwei, and features smart,...

"Virtual game, real dollars, available at your ATM"

May 02, 2006 By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

We Make Money Not Art reports that a massive multiplayer online game has taken the next step in translating virtual currency into real...

From rapid prototyping to personal fabrication

May 02, 2006 By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

I've spent the last couple days working on an article for a technology magazine on the future of personal fabrication. I've long been fascinated by...

From rapid prototyping to personal fabrication

May 01, 2006 By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

I've spent the last couple days working on an article for a technology magazine on the future of personal fabrication. I've long been fascinated by...

Investigating the two-year future

May 01, 2006 By Sean Ness

Here at IFTF, our sweet spot for research is the 3 - 10 year range (though with our efforts in science and technology over the last year, we have...

Nine Technology Filters

Apr 28, 2006 By Marina Gorbis

For our next Tech Horizons exchange, Mike Love and I have been reviewing lots of our old technology forecasts and reports. I won't reveal some of the...

"Gods, Places and Homes"

Apr 28, 2006 By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

When I visited with a family here in Silicon Valley, it was interesting to see the mixture of religious symbols decorating their home. In one room, a...

Pervasive & Context-Aware Computing

Apr 28, 2006 By Anthony Townsend

"Today I'm blogging live from a meeting of Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network, which is a non-profit organization that for a few years now has been...