IFTF: Future Now

The Funky Labor Economics of Uber and Lyft

Jan 23, 2015 By Alex Goldman

We as a society are used to the dichotomy of employed vs unemployed. Sure, some jobs are part-time, some are full; some offer health insurance or...

Four Forecast Perspectives: Remaking Food Experiences

Jan 22, 2015 By Bradley Kreit

In our 2013 research, IFTF's Food Futures research program explored how people will interact with an emerging set of technologies to demand new kinds...

3D Printing a Lawn Game on a Train

Jan 22, 2015 By Sarah Smith

How open source design, a 3D printer & Wikipedia enabled us to play the Swedish lawn game, Kubb, on board the Millennial Trains...

The Future of Food in 2015

Jan 21, 2015 By Sarah Smith

As our country reflected on the State of the Union last night, Edible Startups’ Austin Kiessig released his own thoughts on the state of our food...

Artifact from the Future: "Day Maker" App

Jan 21, 2015 By Neela Lazkani

This artifact from the future explores how technological innovations that monitor emotional states will create new tools to help providers and...

IFTF & Rockefeller Foundation Release: Future of Youth Employment Report!

Jan 16, 2015 By Alex Goldman

IFTF and The Rockefeller Foundation announce the release of the Future of Youth Employment report. The report offers an in-depth look at the changing...

Living in a Health Aware World

Jan 15, 2015 By Sarah Smith

Over the next decade, the objects and environments that we interact with everyday are going to “wake up.” Once inanimate things will have new...

Artifact from the Future: Indulgence Navigator

Jan 14, 2015 By Neela Lazkani

In recent years, we’ve seen the emergence of a variety of direct-to-consumer genetic testing services. As biometric data—genetic, metabolic, and...

2 IFTF Ideas Finalists in Knight Cities Challenge

Jan 12, 2015 By Maureen Kirchner

Today Knight announced the 126 finalists selected for the inaugural Knight Cities Challenge, and I'm thrilled to report that 2 ideas from IFTF made...

Open Source Government? Social Innovation in Practice

Jan 08, 2015 By david evan harris

Hivos recently published Social Innovation in Practice, a collection of stories about what social innovation looks from the voices of activists and...

Artifact from the Future: Patient Sense

Jan 06, 2015 By Neela Lazkani

As we move into an era of abundant data, we will see a proliferation of creative ways to identify the hidden, and often surprising, metrics that...

Four Forecast Perspectives on Reworking Health

Jan 05, 2015 By Bradley Kreit

In recent years, traditional health care players have begun expanding their reach outside of health care settings and into our homes and workplaces,...

Please join me in supporting a Future for Good

Dec 30, 2014 By Bob Johansen

Reciprocity is a basic human instinct. Advantage is a requirement for success in any endeavor. Bringing these two together to create a Reciprocity...

Shaping the Future: IFTF’s Year in Review #Give2Future

Dec 23, 2014 By Marina Gorbis

As we turn to the New Year, IFTF Executive Director, Marina Gorbis, reflects on the most memorable moments in her work. We hope that our work inspires...

IFTF Joins Food Innovation Graduate Program in Italy: Apply Today!

Dec 19, 2014 By Rebecca Chesney

Apply today for a new master’s degree in Italy centered on food, technology, and innovation and built on Institute for the Future's Seeds of...

Please join me and create a Future for Good

Dec 18, 2014 By Ariel Waldman

When I envision a future for good, I see a world in which science has been made accessible to all. This is the future that I have been exploring as...