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IFTF News from the Future #80
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Sparking a Sense of Hope & Agency
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Designing an Anticipatory Institution
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What Exactly is Futures Thinking?
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Deploying Artists as Futurists and Policy Makers
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Apr 29, 2022
How a Public Utility Used Foresight to Take Action
Apr 21, 2022
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New Course: Designing Sustainable Futures
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How to Win Over Your Futures Skeptics
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Germany’s Energiewende is propelling the shift to a new energy economy. This post is Part 2 of a series on Germany’s energy transformation....
Germany’s Energiewende is propelling the shift to a new energy economy. This post is Part 1 of a series on Germany’s energy transformation....
When you put the Mayor of Palo Alto, futures thinking methodologies, and engaged citizens together, the outcome is far from your average local...
Kopimism is a new religion that is based around the belief that sharing is a sacred act. Their sacred symbols are CRTL-C and CRTL-V, the keyboard...
Recently, I came across an ad for Domino’s “We’re Not Artisans” Artisan Pizza. The thin-crusted, rectangular pizza comes in a box with the words...
On Saturday December 8th, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion on the Future of Silicon Valley, as part of the closing...
Health Horizons researchers will be attending the 2013 Personalized Medicine World Conference here in Silicon Valley, January 28-29. In the run-up to...
Future of the Hospital game starts January 8 at 12pm EST / 9am PST - register now!
What if games will be critical tools for finding new ideas and catalyzing new collaborations to solve our most wicked and intractable problems? ...
What do you do when you want to manufacture and sell a toy?...
IFTF's Ten-Year Forecast Research Director Kathi Vian spoke at Sustaining Women in Business conference (SWB 2012) on the trends shaping our collective...
The December issue of US Airways Magazine features the first publicized excerpt from The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed...
Libraries are the future of making. Everyone knows that libraries have books, and more recently DVDs and free internet. But libraries all over the...
The gif (graphic interchange format) was introduced in 1987 by Steve Wilhite (who knew?)! But gifs are just beginning to find their true usefulness....
Via Springwise comes word of an interesting project out of the UK called Click to Cure. At its core, the idea is simple: Give people a bit of training...
The futurist and sci-fi writer William Gibson (@GreatDismal) recently said, “give me a room full of either artists or criminals talking about what...
With the launch this week of its cap and trade system, California’s state leadership demonstrates great foresight and a proactive approach to shaping...
On November 15 the Knight Fellows visited The Institute for the Future for a workshop on the future of media and storytelling. I was lucky enough to...
As part of last week's Fall Technology Horizons conference, IFTF teamed up with Pacific Social Architecting Corporation to host a first of its kind...
In our recently released 2011 forecast report Food Choices in Flux, we looked at Brazil in 2021 “where parents who once faced the threat of hunger are...
Our first ever Tech Horizons’ Make the Future Bootcamp is on November 7-8; follow the conference on Twitter with #realignorg. Over the course of these...
Explore four worlds crafted by the 2012 Summer Interns in an interactive map of the decade that covers health, food, education, development, and...
How do you allow your kids the freedom to take risks without putting them in grave danger? How do you allow them enough freedom to break their arms,...
Biology will drive the next century. Biological-based methods will not only disrupt how we make things, they’ll also disrupt how we source materials...