Institute For The Future

As I have blogged before, Google Health has been pushing the idea of becoming the online repository for personal health records (PHRs), and, as the...

Next door to the IFTF offices is a Blockbuster movie rental store. Sometimes, when we really need a chocolate fix, we stop in to buy a package of...

If you really cared about emerging Internet practices and their social impact in China, AND if you were trying to keep up with social media, AND if...

Billing itself as "intensive content for your health," icyou is like a YouTube for health. It offers "high fidelity medical content to explain...

From IgniteBLOG: More than half of boomers access pharma sites for health info

Healthline's Tech Medicine blogger Joshua Schwimmer, M.D. posted a copy of his recent speech about Health 2.0 from a practicing physician's...

A Healthline blog entry turned me on to Dr. Jay Parkinson's medical practice in New York City. Parkinson has no office--he only makes house (or...

As we prepare for our Future of Foodscapes workshop on November 7, we are looking at the complex issues that arise at the intersection of food,...

I must confess that, with all the attention we have paid to the future of games and health, I have always been a bit troubled that we never talk about...

I stumbled upon a blog entry that discusses research by some Spanish scientists that indicates that ordinary CD players could be adapted to serve as...

[Anthony and I are at the Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence conference for the next couple days, and I thought it would be worth it to post...

Mobile devices and the decline of the graphical user interface

I'm not a Mac fanatic, but every computer I've bought with my own money has been a Mac. I got an SE in 1988, and have gone through various Quadras,...

I've always wondered when this would start--this is the worldwide web after all.  TV Links, a website in the UK, works as a linkfinder for streaming...

Our upcoming conference in Berkeley is going to focus on two trends that are embodied by the recent success of Twitter (we call them Amplified...

My colleagues Anthony Townsend, Jamais Cascio and I are speaking at a conference in Budapest in early...

The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet it ranks poorly on nearly every measure of health status. How can...

Thanks to a new application called Life Record, the iPhone is now empowering doctors to provide mobile care to their patients. Life Record provides...

I'm not a Mac fanatic, but every computer I've bought with my own money has been a Mac. I got an SE in 1988, and have gone through various Quadras,...

More on food safety

It turns out that it has been one year since the outbreak of e. coli from contaminated California-grown spinach led to five deaths nationwide. An...

Here's to regulating the food chain!

My blogging has fallen by the wayside lately, not for lack of news items to comment on, but largely due to how busy the Health Horizons Program is...

Health Search Engines: A Debate

Check out this debate/discussion between two top health search engines, GoPubMed (Dr. Michael R. Alvers, CEO and Co-Founder) and SearchMedica (Cyndy...

Intel continues to play with global health

Back in July, I wrote about Intel's plans to make health care more techno-savvy. Yesterday, I came across a headline in India eNews: "Intel helping...

If you happen to be Down Under this week, Professor Colin McInnes from the University of Wales will be giving what sounds like an interesting lecture...

A hospital in Australia has banned patients who are obese or who smoke from receiving certain surgeries. The Daily Telegraph reports that Queen...