Institute For The Future

"While the mobile phone may have celebrated its 10th birthday in India, this month, foreign travelers to the country will undoubtedly find it a...

In the competition for mobile subscribers, particularly in urban India, mobile carriers have colonized much of the open space with advertisements and...

We don't often talk about mundane issues like network infrastructure deployment here at IFTF. Many of our forecasts just assume that high capacity...

One of the great things about working at the Institute is that it's essentially an institutionalized mechanism for the production of what I think of...

One of the great things about working at the Institute is that it's essentially an institutionalized mechanism for the production of what I think of...

My colleague Frank Baitman sent me this snippet regarding Spyglass Consulting's new report on RFID use in hospitals:...

This morning my new colleague David Pescovitz and I were IMing about nanotech, and somehow got onto the "Library of Congress in a sugar cube" meme....

We're beginning to gather a considerable body of research contributions from IFTF Technology Horizons workshops and interviews with experts...

This memo (SR-926C) considers three application areas--libraries, government IDs, and medical/security implants--and the question of RFID...

One thing I'm struck with in the interviews with Shanghai families is the pervasive fear of food and medical products. Many people we speak with talk...

The Indian goverment is convinced that the path to development is through IT. Cities around the country are competing to be the next Bangalore. The...

"While I was in Bangalore last week, I visited the technology bazaar on SP Road. Karthikeya Acharya, an interaction designer, from CKS (our research...

Recently I had the pleasure of spending some time with John Seely Brown, former head of Xerox PARC, author of two books (one of which I very much...

Sometimes, long after you finish an article, you notice something that you should have said-- an important point worth making, a twist in your...

The mobile phone turns 10 in India this week. The mobile phone has gotten smaller, cheaper, and pervasive in urban India. The challenge for the next...

"As more and more students across the globe study outside their home countries, higher education is becoming more international in several ways. Two...

For a while, I've been meaning to post some articles about how to efficiently find and read blogs. Between the sheer number of blogs, the amount of...

Another shift that we're certainly seeing is one that I would simply characterize as, self-improvement to reinvention, in which people are...

Via John Thackara, I recently read Jean-François Noubel's "Collective Intelligence: The Invisible Revolution." As the abstract puts it, the main...

Global Ethnographic Network (GEN): Framework

"Now that the Technology Horizon's global ethnographic network project is underway, I wanted to share with you the framework we are using to ground...

About fifteen year ago, we began to hear about children who helped their parents with new technologies. They were the ones who knew how to program the...

I have no doubt at all that we will be using our mobile as both our primary device to access the digital world (overtaking the PC) and our primary...

There's been a surprising amount of interesting news lately, considering that it's August: Europe is closed, and most of the US is at the beach......

This afternoon Nicolas Nova, a graduate student at EPFL, gave a talk on the impact of different location-awareness service designs on collaboration....