IFTF: Future Now

Superstructing the Next Decade: 2009 Ten-Year Forecast

May 12, 2010 By Maureen Kirchner

We're excited to make the 2009 Ten-Year Forecast materials—Superstructing the Next...

Telling Stories About Chemicals

May 11, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

The Boston Globe this week ran a great feature noting that as the ability to pinpoint causes of the placebo effect, as well as medical concerns that...

IFTF Summer Internships

May 10, 2010 By Lisa Mumbach

Institute for the Future will be holding a 4-week internship program this summer, from June 22 – July 16. The program will focus on providing...

Your Personal Genome Is No Longer Personal

May 06, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

Should college athletes be required to undergo genetic testing to find out they might be at an increased risk for collapsing and dying during vigorous...

The Difference Between Enhancing Our Environments and Our Brains

Apr 29, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

A few months ago, the brilliant Dan Ariely wrote a short blog post about what he, as a behavioral economist who sees some significant limits to human...

Can Doing Nothing Feel Empowering?

Apr 28, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

There's a lot to like about this feature by Christie Aschwanden about the difficulties of communicating information that contradicts our beliefs....

Substituting Telecommunications for Travel

Apr 21, 2010 By Anthony Townsend

Over the last week, as the sudden eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano disrupted air travel throughout Europe, many people and organizations...

Broccoli: The Next National Security Imperative

Apr 20, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

That hamburger isn't just making your children heavy: It's causing a fundamental national security...

Idea Management & Prediction Markets

Apr 14, 2010 By Anthony Townsend

When I first joined the Institute four years ago, I spent much of 2006 looking at the prospects of prediction markets for long-range forecasting. For...

The Significance of Significance

Apr 12, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

A few years ago, I was at a medical conference when a presenter pulled a bit of academic magic: He showed us that the study he just finished wound up...

Your Friends as Salespeople

Apr 07, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

Via Springwise comes word of an interesting marketing ploy from Domino's Pizza: They've developed a widget that you can place on your social...

Emotional Networking for Caring and Well-being

Apr 05, 2010 By Miriam Lueck Avery

I just got a note in my email. My aunt is busy with her own appointment, and nobody had yet volunteered to pick my uncle up from the VA hospital...

How to kick butt at kicking butts: A novel approach to smoking cessation

Apr 05, 2010 By Vivian Distler

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From diseased or disabled to regenerated or enabled

Apr 05, 2010 By Vivian Distler

From the peg legs of pirates of yore to the Six Million Dollar Man’s bionic parts, we have long been fascinated with the replacement of damaged body...

From knowing what’s good for our health to doing what’s good for our health

Apr 04, 2010 By Vivian Distler

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Tell Me What I Can Do

Mar 31, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

Jay Parkinson has a typically smart post at the Future Well asking if "viewing personalized life data changes everyday...

Out of the Box Perfect Speech Recognition

Mar 30, 2010 By Michael Liebhold

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FutureCast: Vinay Gupta on Disaster Relief Innovation

Mar 30, 2010 By Tessa Finlev

Designing with Empathy...

From Bench to Bedside to Embedded

Mar 30, 2010 By Rachel Maguire

The promise of translational medicine to integrate clinical research with health care interventions more seamlessly has been fraught with pitfalls...

What Beer can Tell Us About the Future of Local Food

Mar 29, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

Last week, the Slow Money Alliance posted the results of a survey finding that 98 percent of independent retailers in New England would prefer to...

Lightweight innovation for credit card companies

Mar 29, 2010 By Mani Pande

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Robotics For Sustainability

Mar 26, 2010 By Mathias Crawford

As you may have read earlier in the week, this week we here at IFTF have been collaborating with the American Chemical Society on a new Signtific Lab...