IFTF: Future Now

Rock or Block?

Dec 13, 2018 By Dylan Hendricks

As we wade deeper into the 2020s, the lines between fun, learning, and data-mining continue to blur beyond...

Keep Out!

Dec 12, 2018 By Rod Falcon

Young people embrace and pioneer new strategies for communicating with each other that the rest of us just don’t “get.” But we know they shape tech...

The Livestream Economy

Dec 11, 2018 By Lyn Jeffery

For millions of people in China, livestreaming is becoming a new form of work. Based on the value of digital gifts their viewers send them, they can...

N2U

Dec 10, 2018 By Madeline Ashby

N2U is a revolutionary technology that allows us to help you discover who is available, and who isn’t, and how interested they really...

Empathy on Demand

Dec 07, 2018 By Mark Frauenfelder

Maria Konnikova is the author of two bestselling books, “The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time and “Mastermind: How To Think Like...

Empathy Bugs

Dec 06, 2018 By Rudy Rucker

Emoticons? Yep. I’m talking about augmented-reality images, overlaid onto my visual input by a synthetic encephalitis virus that I infected myself...

Without social organizations, social technologies will eat us alive.

Nov 26, 2018 By Marina Gorbis

An essay by Marina Gorbis

2018 Future for Good Fellows: Towards an Equitable Future

Oct 22, 2018 By Tessa Finlev

"To overcome poverty, we have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before, and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make...

5G & The Future of Cities

Oct 18, 2018

Institute for the Future and Digi.City will host public conversation (with refreshments) to explore the prospects for making cities smarter and the...

Creating Change with Food + Foresight

Oct 18, 2018 By Max Elder

In January of 1969 at St. Augustine’s Church in Oakland, California, the Free Breakfast for School Children program was started by a group of...

Is Virtual Reality Better Than the Real World for Learning?

Oct 13, 2018 By Van Ton-Quinlivan

VR could be a gamechanger when it comes to learning and training.

Close It 2018: Future Meets Now

Oct 08, 2018

Institute for the Future and Innovate+Educate to host Close It 2018: Future Meets Now conference Oct. 16-17 in Austin, Texas; event brings experts in...

IFTF gets a new Executive in Residence

Sep 11, 2018 By Julie Ericsson

Van Ton-Quinlivan, Executive Vice Chancellor, California Community College,s is IFTF's new Executive in Residence....

IFTF Joins Forces with Zebras Unite To Focus New Investments on Prioritizing Social Good as Well as Profits

Jul 23, 2018

A new partnership between Institute for the Future and Zebras Unite aims to work with investors, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design new funding...

New Models for Getting Things Done

Jun 15, 2018

"Beyond Organizations: New Models for Getting Things Done" forecasts transformations in organizational...

Ferdinando Buscema is IFTF's New Magician in Residence

Jun 11, 2018 By David Pescovitz

Institute For The Future’s first ever “Magician-in-Residence” will inject even more wonder into Futures...

Power Up and Evolve: It's Not Just for "Pokémon"

Jun 08, 2018 By Jane McGonigal

In early July, “Pokémon Go” burst onto the smartphone screens of people around the globe seemingly overnight. Within the first week of its release,...

Institute for the Future to Teach Nation’s Mayors How to Envision Brighter Futures for their Cities

Jun 08, 2018 By Jean Hagan

IFTF will join the nation’s mayors at the 86th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors June 8-10 to help city leaders better embrace...

No Exit

Jun 01, 2018 By Douglas Rushkoff

Ubiquity is the persuasion professional’s best friend. The more embedded a medium or message—the less like an identifiable thing it appears to be—the...