IFTF: Future Now

Investing in Local Communities to Improve Health

Nov 07, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

The New England Journal of Medicine has a fascinating study examining the effects of a low-income housing program impacted participants' health--the...

How Our Perception of Risk Hurts our Health

Oct 31, 2011 By Ben Hamamoto

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Images of Future Wars

Oct 28, 2011 By Tessa Finlev

Last night as part of my work looking at futures thinking and conflict resolution I was reading The Future: Images and Processes by Elise and Kenneth...

Hide from the Digital World--At Your Own Risk

Oct 25, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

The American Medical Association's trade newsletter had an interesting, if troubling story about a recent rise in medical identity theft--and the...

Language Mining is the New Health (and Marketing) Tool

Oct 19, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

I've been really enjoying James Pennebaker's new book The Secret Life of Pronouns, which provides a great, readable overview of how subtle shifts in...

Simple Games and the Future of Empathy

Oct 11, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

A great game called Spent has gotten a fair bit of attention for its incredibly simple yet powerful simulation of life below the poverty...

The Future as a Foreign Land

Oct 10, 2011 By Marina Gorbis

One where we will see new landscapes evolving and encounter whole new ways of organizing society

Adolescence, Bacteria, and Thinking Beyond Risk

Sep 19, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

David Dobbs has a typically outstanding piece in this month's National Geographic about teenage behavior, arguing, in effect, that what appears to be...

Simulation And the Danger of Confusing it with Prediction

Sep 12, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

The BBC had a fascinating article the other day running under the unfortunate headline of "Supercomputer Predicts Revolution," about an intriguing...

Contagion Health

Sep 09, 2011 By Rachel Maguire

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Optimizing Healthspans: Branching paths of longevity and death

Sep 02, 2011 By Miriam Lueck Avery

Optimizing Healthspans was one of our forecasts on the recently released Science, Technology and Well-being 2020 Forecast Map. ...

Science Hack Day Goes Global

Aug 30, 2011 By Jean Hagan

Can Facebook Help in an Emergency?

Aug 24, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

Via NPR comes word of a recently launched contest to identify ways to use Facebook in an emergency. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and...

Programming Immunity: Defense to Offense

Aug 19, 2011 By Miriam Lueck Avery

As we scanned the horizon of science and technology’s ability to create health and well-being, we became fascinated with the idea of tinkering:...

Innovation spaces of the future: research notes on China's shanzhai meeting the Makers

Aug 16, 2011 By Lyn Jeffery

Over a few months in early 2011, in the course of doing research for an IFTF Tech Horizons Program’s study on the future of “open fabrication,” I...

Social Connection and the Future of Well-Being

Aug 15, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

Last week, I happened upon this several year old article called the Social Context of Well-being about how social connection and social capital...

Grumpy, Happy Collaboration: The Drug of Futurists

Aug 05, 2011 By Jake Dunagan

On Wednesday, August 3, at 10:28am I got a "mention" ping from Tweetdeck. This is the message I received:@askpang @futuryst @dunagan23 @thezhanly...

If youth are our future, what of the future of youth?

Aug 05, 2011 By Tessa Finlev

Youth leadership is a hot button issue these days. But I think what we tend to forget—or don’t have the opportunity to understand—is that youth...

IFTF Explores Innovation in Brazil

Aug 04, 2011 By Anthony Townsend

I had the amazing opportunity to speak at the 4th Brazilian Congress on Innovation this week. There’s not much information about the event on the web...

Slow Rollout for Future of Whitespace Wifi

Aug 01, 2011 By Michael Liebhold

IFTF colleague, Sean Ness, asked me for comments on glowing blog predictions for near term availability of wide area "Super WiFi" using the recently...

Mapping Health Information Ecologies

Jul 27, 2011 By Michael Liebhold

As humans, we normally make decisions in our heads by blending related data from various domains of our lives. We model each judgement in our minds by...

Clothes Are The New Health Product

Jul 26, 2011 By Bradley Kreit

A few years ago, I happened upon an article that essentially argues that the more wealth in a country, the more comparative value health has--which,...