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IFTF News from the Future #80
Oct 06, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | September
Sep 28, 2022
Sparking a Sense of Hope & Agency
Sep 19, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #79
Sep 08, 2022
Designing an Anticipatory Institution
Aug 26, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | August
Aug 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #78
Aug 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #77
Aug 02, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | July
Jul 27, 2022
IFTF News From the Future #76
Jul 14, 2022
What Exactly is Futures Thinking?
Jun 28, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #75
Jun 23, 2022
CA 100 MEGA Scenarios
Jun 22, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | June
Jun 16, 2022
Congratulations, Urgent Optimist founding members!
Jun 13, 2022
Deploying Artists as Futurists and Policy Makers
May 27, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #74
May 24, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #73
May 19, 2022
IFTF Equitable Enterprise Initiative Newsletter #6
Apr 29, 2022
How a Public Utility Used Foresight to Take Action
Apr 21, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #72
Apr 07, 2022
New Course: Designing Sustainable Futures
Mar 30, 2022
How to Win Over Your Futures Skeptics
Mar 28, 2022
IFTF News From the Future #71
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News From the Future #70
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News From the Future #69
Feb 17, 2022
IFTF News from the Future #68
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News from the Future #67
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More and more platforms claiming copyright ownership for any thoughts you share via mindshare...
Serendipity seems to be a way of life at the Institute for the Future. On a flight back from visiting one of IFTF's Future for Good Fellows in Mexico...
Health Heroes translate technology breakthroughs into new capabilities and new professions, and pioneer new models of clinical...
The UN has come out and said it—small-scale, diversified, organic farming is the only way to sustainably feed the world. Forget about GMOs. Forget...
Pharmaceuticals escape the pharmacy and find their way into fruitbaskets and veggie bins—all part of a long-term “normalization” of...
There has never been a better time to be a civic participant or a maker in governance. On Friday, December 6, IFTF researcher Bettina Warburg...
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Technology is remaking the future of food, with innovation seeding disruption from production to distribution to eating. These new technologies are...
In 2032, the role of public health surveillance expands from monitoring and collecting data to creating actuating systems that can respond proactively...
Scanning the horizon for emerging trends during UN Week.
UN teams up with the Global Pirate Party to create IP free disaster relief kits.
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, which neighborhood is healthiest of all?”
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You know when you fall madly in love with a super local musician? Their sound just captures your spirit to a tee. You love it when you go to a local...
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Prototyping systems of all kind at the World Maker Faire.
I’m fascinated to learn of a new “asset management cooperative” coming out of Finland—Robin Hood Minor Asset Management....
During a recent visit to Montevideo, Uruguay, I was struck by an underground exhibit at the SUBTE gallery of sculptures, collage,drawing, painting and...
View the Millennial Trains Project as an artifact from the future—a small piece of an education system designed for a globalized world, preparing...