Future Now
The IFTF Blog
The Coronavirus is the Future Shock of the Decade: Three Things You Need To Know
As many of us are continuously exploring ways to stay ahead, or at least keep up, with the changing times, often we find that the methods we’ve been...
Signals of change are the building blocks of futures thinking, and scanning for signals is an essential habit for any foresight practitioner. They...
It’s a great time to be a foresight practitioner. Design, ethnography, innovation, strategy, experience, change management...people at the edges of...
In September 2018, the Institute for The Future (IFTF) held its first panel on Afrofuturism at its Ten Year Forecast at the Museum of Computer History...
Our brains think of our future selves as strangers and have built-in anxiety about change. This human tendency and our cognitive bias against thinking...
By Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future and Nick Monaco, Director, Institute for the Future, Digital Intelligence...
The Emerging Media Lab at Institute for the Future partnered with California Community Colleges to explore the future affordances and applications of...
Political upheaval. Turbulent markets. Massive climate disruptions. Today’s volatility means big challenges tomorrow. Will the future find you or your...
Twitter recently released a 1.6 GB archive of tweets that it determined had been spread by the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as...
The Significance of China’s Debut as a Disinformation Actor...
Whenever I call a customer service line and have to sit through a torturous series of non-human interactions — “If you are calling x, press y,” “sorry...
Negotiating trust and what's real in the new world of Social VR: From thinking about data in three dimensions to re-inventing audience experience,...
When was the last time you traveled to the future? If you’re like most people, the answer is: just a few minutes ago. That’s because the average...
What happens when fleets of autonomous cars battle it out for the same street corner? As fleets of autonomous cars make their way into messy, crowded...
What happens when your health is dependent on an upgrade you can't afford? As intelligent autonomous objects proliferate, they can be seen as...