Institute For The Future

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John Kay's recent piece in the Financial Times is a useful warning to people doing financial—and other kinds of—forecasting: understanding the...

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I just happened to find this BusinessWeek clip sitting on my colleague Sean Ness' desk last week when I was in town. Talk about the serendipity of...

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet Joel Rubinson, the Chief Research Officer and resident thought leader at the Advertising Research Foundation,...

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One of the big bits of news from the Macworld keynote is that the iTunes Music Store will be going DRM-free, with three different prices for songs...

For some time I've been thinking about how trends in computing and design might affect the way that futurists work: how they could be used to sharpen...

As some of you know, yesterday all first-generation 30 GB Zune music players stopped working at midnight Pacific time. Technology journalist Andy...

Social Currencies, Aishwarya  and Purnima, Bangalore, India...

Ed Glaeser of Harvard University, who has written much over the last decade on the economics of cities and knowledge industries, has a good op-ed on...

Leisure and Downtime, USA, Atlanta, "Darnel"

Darnel is a recruiter for a government agency, focused on increasing diversity. He recently took a different internal focus to reduce the amount of...

Leisure/Downtime, Expert interview, Rajesh Rao, Bangalore, India. ...

Vishal Gondal facebooks from his phone at the Sahara Hotel

My favorite New York Times music critic, John Pareles—who was once caught at a show tracking the setlist by scoring bass lines—wrote a great piece on...

Hakim at his workstation at the Bandra video studio

Rashmi at her home in Vashi, Mumbai, India