IFTF: Future Now

Avoid These Common Mistakes in Your Foresight Practice

May 21, 2021

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News from the Future #56

May 14, 2021

How will you go beyond carbon neutral to climate positive?

Stone Soup Scenarios: How to Pull in Multiple Perspectives When Forecasting the Future

Apr 28, 2021 By Ben Hamamoto

“What happens when 20 futurists team up to investigate the future of family?” Institute for the Future Director of Game Research and Development Jane...

How to Assemble Your Foresight Community

Apr 27, 2021 By Ayca K. Guralp

No single person can claim the future for themself. The future is shared by a multitude, whether we like it or not, so it is a futurist’s folly to...

News from the Future #55

Apr 20, 2021

Futurist Book Reviews

Apr 16, 2021 By Bradley Kreit

RECOMMENDED READING The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Hiding in Plain Sight: America’s Working Poverty Epidemic

Apr 14, 2021 By Marina Gorbis

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Are Foresight Practitioners Optimists?

Mar 29, 2021

With so much time spent thinking about the future, IFTFers are sometimes asked whether they have optimistic or pessimistic outlooks regarding what's...

News From the Future #54

Mar 24, 2021

On track towards the post-pandemic future.

News from the Future #53

Mar 04, 2021

Build a Scenario for Climate Action.

News from the Future #52

Feb 01, 2021 By IFTF

As futurists, we’re biased toward optimism. 2021 is gathering momentum, and efforts to address COVID-19, climate change, racial injustice, immigration...

The Social Work Health Futures Lab: Exploring the Future of Well-Being and Justice

Jan 29, 2021 By Laura Nissen, Ph.D., Professor and Social Work Health Futures Lab Director and Founder

What does it look like to invite an entire profession to consider whether futures thinking and foresight practice should be part of how it operates to...

Feb 10-11: You're Invited! Building Climate-Positive Organizations

Jan 27, 2021 By Maureen Kirchner

Join IFTF Vantage for two half-day sessions on Feb 10-11 for in-depth conversations with experts on the future of climate adaptation....

Waiting for the American Khrushchev

Jan 15, 2021 By Marina Gorbis

Who will deliver the “Cult of Personality” speech to Americans?

News from the Future #51

Dec 28, 2020 By IFTF

What a year this has been! 2020 began much like any other year in the 21st century, with hopeful New Year’s celebrations worldwide. Then, an...

Bentoism: A Map to Liberate Ourselves from the “Now Me”

Dec 22, 2020 By Ayca K. Guralp

At IFTF’s 2020 Ten-Year Forecast Summit we were joined by Yancey Strickler, Co-Founder of Kickstarter and author of This Could be Our Future: A...

A Playbook for Ethical Technology Governance

Dec 18, 2020 By Jake Dunagan & Ilana Lipsett

The daily cognitive abuse of disinformation campaigns, the oppression of algorithmic bias, and the revelations of systematic manipulation shown in the...

News from the Future #50

Dec 08, 2020

Scenario Building for Uncertain Times

Searching for Signals: Tips & Tricks from IFTF Staff

Nov 24, 2020

If you like getting into the weeds on how to find good signals, this post is for you! Oftentimes you come across signals in the course of daily life,...