Institute For The Future

I'm only half joking with the title of the post. When I was at Britannica, I spent forever trying to commission a set of 3D visualizations of...

"Shakemovie, the future of science"

I'm only half joking with the title of the post. When I was at Britannica, I spent forever trying to commission a set of 3D visualizations of...

The essay on rapid prototyping, personal fabrication, and the future of manufacturing has appeared in the latest issue of Samsung DigitAll Magazine....

Pheeder - Multicast Shouts thru Cell Phone Networks

A former student of mine at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, John Geraci (creator of NeighborNode) has a new project out called Pheeder....

Fry basket wifi antenna

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"It seems a lot of folks are adding the tag "2.0" to the end of a word to make it the "new, new...

"Members of our Ten-Year Forecast Program are familiar with the work of William Mitchell, director of the MIT Media Lab's Smart Cities research group....

Seth Godin shares his thoughts about The Chicago Tribune's Havana Bureau Chief: ...

A couple of years ago, as part of our work on Cybernomadics, IFTF forecasted the blending of the real money economy and virtual economy. I'm amazed...

"Sony just announced a tiny and relatively inexpensive GPS receiver in a keychain form factor. The GPS-CS1, retailing for $150, is designed to...

An article at PhysicsWeb describes an organic molecular transistor that can be used as an ultrasensitive chemical sensor. The transistor is a...

The gecko must be one of the most-studied animals in the world today, thanks to its ability to climb virtually any surface. A number of engineers are...

Yahoo! Design Expo

Yesterday I went to the Yahoo Design Expo, an event bringing together bright design students from the U.S., England, and Brazil....

Back in May I blogged about the DIY gunshot trauma ward that some gangsters had set up in East Palo Alto... now a basement cosmetic surgery clinic has...

Bill Gates demands knowledge sharing

via David Bollier's On the Commons,...

The Age of User Experience

Andreas Pfeiffer argues in ACM Ubiquity that features don't matter any more; user experience is...

Fast Company has a great article about how cities are increasingly being centered on airports, and the importance of air cargo in all aspects of the...

It's not Fantastic Voyage, but researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands developed a tiny robot that someday may shuttle a payload of...

The Associated Press has an article on a new JAMA study documenting the relationship between daily exercise and...

Technology Horizons members who participated in our conferences over the last couple of years will recall that one of the leading conclusions of IFTF...

We learn from the GigaOM blog that the National Science Foundation has backed an Open Source Wireless Mesh Project. Sascha Meinrath, of the...

HP announced a new kind of tag for putting digital information on things. Called Memory Spots, they're somewhat like RFID tags in basic structure--...

"MIT researchers are developing an approach to Mars exploration that sits right at the intersection of our forecasts about light infrastructure and...

Yesterday I went to the Yahoo Design Expo, an event bringing together bright design students from the U.S., England, and Brazil....