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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?
Jun 28, 2022
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
Mar 10, 2022
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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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Professionals tend to see the operational structure of their institutions as reflections of the natural state of things. From their vantage point, new...
Join IFTF's Food Futures Lab for our next Edible Futures event on October 12, featuring artists from the Center for Genomic Gastronomy. We'll explore...
Propaganda, American Style: A Khrushchev's Perspective on the aftermath of 9/11.
Cities are where we face the future first. How will we shape the #FutureOfOurCity? Join us Sept 27 at 6:30PM in Oakland for Co-Creating the Future of...
Recently the Food Futures Lab convened a diverse group of experts to participate in a half-day workshop to explore the future of human-food...
Aiming to help everyone make almost anything, Fab Labs have opened around the world, and Fab Cities are taking the movement...
In July, IFTF joined leading global experts in tissue engineering to discuss the future of cultured beef, pork, and chicken, and the impact on the...
IFTF is partnering with Imisi 3D, a virtual reality creation lab, to host a public workshop on the future of Lagos on August...
Recently, Unilever acquired Dollar Shave Club, a direct-to-consumer men’s hygiene company, for $1 Billion. This might seem like another day, another...
IFTF Research Fellow Mary Kay Magistad released the latest installment of her Whose Century Is It podcast series on August 11. The episode delves into...
Thinking about the far-off future isn’t just an exercise in intellectual curiosity. It’s a practical skill that, as new research reveals, has a direct...
Marina Gorbis: Envisioning and making the future must be a massively public endeavor. IFTF is motivated by the belief that everyone needs to be part...
Nikiko Masumoto, organic farmer and agrarian artist, is an IFTF 2016 Future for Good Fellow. Together with Nikiko, we at IFTF are envisioning the role...
On September 28, Join Future for Good Fellow Nikiko Masumoto, Real Food Real Stories and IFTF’s Food Futures Lab for an evening of stories about...
As co-founder of Iceland's prominent Pirate Party and inventor of Liquid Democracy, McCarthy examines the way technology is opening governance...
It may seem that Pokémon GO appeared overnight, but an IFTF forecast report from 2006 shows that this game has been years in the making. Context-aware...
At a time when people are fearful, and many dystopian futures lurk ahead, it is up to us to collectively imagine and build the future we want. Humans...
We are happy to announce the release of "From Maker Cities to Open Cities: How the Maker Mindset & Technology are Reinventing Urban Life," Chapter 9...
First World Problems are Third World Problems are First World Problems, and Second World Problems too! It’s time to accept something....
In the heady aspirations of blockchain-biased social entrepreneurs, what could be a better blockchain application for the good of the planet than...
Kazakh culture provides unique opportunities and challenges to innovation. Some thoughts on the future of Kazakhstan from Diana Tsoy, Kazakh...
The Future Health Index—a report exploring results and implications of an extensive international study exploring how countries are positioned to meet...
Co-founder of Wired magazine, and author of the critically acclaimed book Out of Control, Kevin has helped his readers change the way they think about...
Panama Papers, 'pirates,' and an argument for how (some) data leaks can make the world a better place, by IFTF Research Fellow Mary Kay Magistad,...