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IFTF News from the Future #80
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Sparking a Sense of Hope & Agency
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IFTF News from the Future #79
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Designing an Anticipatory Institution
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IFTF News from the Future #78
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We're spending a lot of time this year in the Institute for the Future's Technology Horizons research group thinking about how we will experience the...
How can games make us healthy? On May 29th, the public joined leading experts in health and health care games—including game designer Jane McGonigal,...
For most of its history, using the Internet has involved conforming and contorting to the logic, architecture, and input/output mechanisms of machine...
If you've been to the Institute recently, you’ve probably seen this:
May 7 marks the publication of the second edition of Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World by IFTF Distinguished...
Brinda Dalal joined our team as a research director in early 2012. Her career to-date has spanned two decades and three continents. Brinda's research...
We are moving from a world in which content is created only by institutions to one where bots, systems, and platforms tweet, tell stories, and write...
Young people today are caught in the transition between two worlds—the world of institutional production of education and a new world of possibilities...
Higher education worldwide is moving toward creative disruption on multiple fronts. As signals emerge that these disruptions are beginning to take...
Higher education worldwide is moving toward creative disruption on multiple fronts. As signals emerge that these disruptions are beginning to take...
Higher education worldwide is moving toward creative disruption on multiple fronts. As signals emerge that these disruptions are beginning to take...
IFTF would like to invite you to the first annual Super Happy Block Party Hackathon. If you have ever been the a hackathon before, all you need to...
Via NPR's Food Blog comes word of an urban foraging project in Seattle called the Beacon Food Forest. The concept is simple: Populate vacant space...
Design fiction is a powerful tool for helping us think about the future. Often times, the goal in creating a design fiction is to explore what a...
My lates Fast Coexist piece is available here. In it, I argue that medical microwork is emerging as a means to improve global health-as well as an...
The Chinese government is taking a softer, more cuddly approach to marketing its one child policy, according to an article in yesterday's Gaurdian....
I recently read an interesting article in the Atlantic about the history of how we came to see alcoholism as a medical...
How do we age well? It's a challenge each of us will face as individuals someday, if we're not doing so already. But all over the globe, we're seeing...
Via Make Magazine comes word of an aerial drone that inadvertently happened upon a meat packing plant in Dallas that was polluting a nearby river with...
During the one-day session on April 19 at the AutoDesk Gallery, experts, researchers, and guests explored the many different frontiers where 3D...
A couple weeks ago during a research meeting for our upcoming year, our colleague Lyn Jeffery challenged us to imagine a future where, at some point...