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IFTF News from the Future #80
Oct 06, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | September
Sep 28, 2022
Sparking a Sense of Hope & Agency
Sep 19, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #79
Sep 08, 2022
Designing an Anticipatory Institution
Aug 26, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | August
Aug 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #78
Aug 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #77
Aug 02, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | July
Jul 27, 2022
IFTF News From the Future #76
Jul 14, 2022
What Exactly is Futures Thinking?
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IFTF News from the Future #75
Jun 23, 2022
CA 100 MEGA Scenarios
Jun 22, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | June
Jun 16, 2022
Congratulations, Urgent Optimist founding members!
Jun 13, 2022
Deploying Artists as Futurists and Policy Makers
May 27, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #74
May 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #73
May 19, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Initiative Newsletter #6
Apr 29, 2022
How a Public Utility Used Foresight to Take Action
Apr 21, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #72
Apr 07, 2022
New Course: Designing Sustainable Futures
Mar 30, 2022
How to Win Over Your Futures Skeptics
Mar 28, 2022
IFTF News From the Future #71
Mar 24, 2022
News From the Future #70
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News From the Future #69
Feb 17, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #68
Jan 26, 2022
News from the Future #67
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On October 21-22, IFTF’s Technology Horizons Program will host its fall conference: The New Body Language: the Future of Wearables, Wireless, and Body...
Institute for the Future and ACT Foundation are teaming up and we need your vote TODAY on PanelPicker for Future Work Skills + Towards a National...
Welcome to Café Hyène, a speculative dining experience that debuted at IFTF's 2015 Ten-Year Forecast retreat. What happens when food waste, the...
The year is 2025. Those weird headsets you saw your favorite pro basketball team wear ... [This is the final scenario in a series of four about...
As we grapple with the future of an on-demand global workforce, all of us need to engage in envisioning positive platforms that ensure a workable...
IFTF's network of practical visionaries and futures thinkers is shaping the global conversation about food innovation with the USA Pavilion at Expo...
IFTF's Food Futures Lab investigated how breakthroughs in microbiology might transform the future of health, food, and even retail for the 2015...
There’s a lot of talk about rapid technology-enabled changes in the nature of work. In July 2015, IFTF's Workable Futures Initiative met with the U.S....
[Reposted from The New York Times] The changes coming out of Silicon Valley are fundamentally transforming our institutional, social and cultural...
To help build a vision for a post-conflict world, we’ve begun mapping emerging alternative structures of equality and inclusion. We’re tracking four...
You shake hands with an old friend and sit down for lunch in the cafe. It is so good to see them ... [This is the third in a series of four scenarios...
Boundaries are important. In health, meaningful boundaries protect personal health information, ensure patient and product safety, and, in many cases,...
On June 22, a team of IFTF researchers traveled from Silicon Valley to Italy to launch our 2015 research on the ingredients for food innovation. What...
Each spring, we host the annual Ten-Year Forecast retreat, a multi-day event where thought leaders and strategists from nearly every sector and...
Want to be a food futurist? Help the IFTF Food Futures Lab map the innovations and forces of change that will make a resilient, equitable, and...
"Mmm ... this feels good," Andrew murmured inaudibly. Throngs of adoring fans were hanging on his every word ... [This is the second in a series of...
With the support of a grant from the Knight Foundation, IFTF is launching the Workable Futures Initiative to bring together policy makers and platform...
From California's Bay Area to Emilia-Romagna, Italy, epicenters in our global food system integrate their unique entrepreneurial and food cultures...
Until we can design our process for social change so that they reflect our desired outcomes—equal access and voice, open and shared dialogue, power...
The recent ruling by the California Labor Commission that an Uber driver should be classified as a W-2 employee, not an independent contractor,...
Join IFTF's Tech Horizons program June 16-17 as we explore a future where everyday people, organizations, and cities use previously-unimagined machine...
At the Skoll World Forum on April 15, IFTF's Bettina Warburg planned a session bent on bringing together technological and societal perspectives on...
Join us June 16-17 for The Automated World: Toward Human+Machine Symbiosis. We’re on the verge of transformation on an entirely new scale....
IFTF's Food Futures Lab Joins Tom Colicchio, Bon Appetit Management Company, and James Beard-Winning DC Central Kitchen Founder for a discussion about...