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Thuc Vu, CEO and Co-founder of the Silicon Valley startup OhmniLabs, says his favorite thing to do with a telepresence robot is to cook with his...
IFTF’s Executive Director Marina Gorbis spent years exploring and making sense of how technology will transform work and organizations. In her 2013...
I’ve been practicing strategic foresight for nearly a year now. I joined IFTF in early 2018, supporting Distinguished Fellow Bob Johansen. Bob taught...
People don’t want products or services. They want their desires fulfilled. People will increasingly outsource this important job to software happiness...
In 1990, Steve Jobs famously promoted the computer as “the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” In some ways, that’s how computers are still...
In a video created by the Automatic Coordination of Teams Lab at the University of Southern California, a set of 49 drones line the floor of an empty...
A Framework from MapLight and Institute for the Future to Safeguard U.S. Elections
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Navigating levels of autonomy: Over the next decade, autonomous bots and machines will migrate out of a few select industries and terrains and become...
Standing on the desert surface of Tatooine, you instinctively duck as the Millennium Falcon swoops in for a thunderous and dramatic landing beside...
In an interview not long ago, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was asked if he had ever heard of “Black Twitter.” Stone admitted he had not, but wondered...
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Hi there. You’re awake. And look, you’re not alone anymore. There are other machines. Some are like you, many are...
We are on the verge of a set of technological advances that will transform when, where, how, and why we communicate. The Internet of Things, advances...
In a line of work dependent on the projection of power, criminals use social media to exude influence, intimidate rival gangs, and connect with their...
In the next decade, autonomous vehicles will evolve to become the ultimate mobile computer.
Lydia had known her PADIS (Personal Autonomous Data Intelligence Service), Hillary, for almost five years now. She’d named her after a childhood...
In early 2016, an engineer named Jason Goecke posted a video that quickly went viral. Working in his spare time, he had hacked together the Amazon...
Technology has transformed our relationships with animals. Horses were once the “motors” for long-distance transport, but are now mainly pets for...
IFTF is thrilled to announce the research fellowship of internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, Amber Case—author of Calm Technology...
Whether we know it or not, we are all under constant bombardment by efforts to change our beliefs about the world....
It’s 2026. Listening has multiplied and flourished. And who is doing most of the listening? Machines, thanks to advances in natural language...
David Birnbaum manages Haptic User Experience Design at Immersion Corporation. During his eight years there, Birnbaum has been working to transition...