Institute For The Future

I was at the first day of SciBarCamp today, playing local host / fixer / keeping an eye on the furniture. Sean Mooney (a former professor at Indiana...

The New York Times has a piece (Future Vision Banished to the Past") about the likely destruction of Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, a "rare...

A group of researchers in Japan are moving toward human testing of a genetically modified rice crop designed to treat allergies to cedar pollen....

The rise of the netbook has made its way into traditional print media - a strong indicator that the trend toward low cost, cloud-reliant computing has...

I'm a bit late to this, but a bunch of bloggers, self-trackers and companies have endorsed something called A Delcaration of Health Data Rights. The...

While working on the Digital Open: the Innovation Expo for Global Youth that IFTF is running in partnership with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing, I...

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In the recent Signtific games on the future of cubesats (described here), a number of people suggested using them for games. At the 2009 cubesat...

It's pretty well accepted that the Internet has become home to an astounding amount of useful information--as well as a ton of misleading and...

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A couple weeks ago I mentioned my long standing fascination with the history of architecture, and in particular my interest in how spatial design...

Microsoft is investing in building ICT capabilities in Ghana. The MoU is an extension of the 2004 relationship between Microsoft and Ghana in which...

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Registration is still open for the first Open Video Conference (6/19-21, NYU Law School), the first major public event of the Open Video Alliance—an...

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Researchers from the Brain Gate team are beginning a second, larger clinical study of their system, which connects to the motor cortex of the brain...

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It's conventional wisdom that groups generate ideas and plans more moderate than those of individuals. Groups and discussion encourage compromise,...

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The Ministry of Health in south Sudan has released 5 motorcycles complete with sidecar and padded bed to act as ambulances for pregnant women. The...