IFTF: Future Now

Blockchain in High Delta Markets: Manufacturing Trust in Unstable Environments

May 27, 2016 By Jeremy Kirshbaum

[Edited by Alex Goldman] Blockchain and distributed computing have the greatest impact in areas of instability, like the high delta markets of Nigeria...

Jane McGonigal heads to EduTECH 2016

May 27, 2016 By Maureen Kirchner

Jane McGonigal, author of games and books like Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter and Director of Game Research and Development at IFTF, is off to...

Douglas Rushkoff joins IFTF as Research Fellow

May 26, 2016 By David Pescovitz

We're thrilled to announce that media theorist, author, and professor Douglas Rushkoff has joined Institute for the Future as a Research Fellow....

Fred Wilson on the Blockchain

May 24, 2016 By Mark Frauenfelder

Fred Wilson has an impressive track record when it comes to investing in Internet based businesses. His portfolio includes Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy,...

Game Room: Blockchain Meets Virtual Reality

May 10, 2016 By Kathi Vian

As we try to grasp the future of blockchain and other distributed computing technologies, we have to start here, with this high-resolution gamescape...

When Everything is Media: The Future of Communications and Technology

May 07, 2016 By Alex Goldman

IFTF invites Technology Horizons program members to join us for our spring Immersion and research retreat, When Everything is Media: The Future of...

Cellular Agriculture and Future Food Design—Join Us!

May 06, 2016 By Rebecca Chesney

Join the IFTF Food Futures Lab at the Berkeley-Stanford Food Innovation and Design Symposium and New Harvest 2016: Cellular Agriculture...

Take the Foresight C.U.R.E.

May 04, 2016 By Miriam Lueck Avery

What if a 3-day training workshop could help you see your career in a whole new light?...

Amazon is Just Walmart on Digital Drugs

May 02, 2016 By Mark Frauenfelder

In December 2013, a group of protestors in Oakland, California attacked a private Google shuttle bus that was taking Google employees from their Bay...

Smári McCarthy: From the Panama Papers to the Pirate Party

Apr 29, 2016 By David Evan Harris

Join Smári McCarthy in conversation with Marina Gorbis on May 13 about his work in breaking the story of the Panama Papers and launching Iceland’s...

What High Delta Markets Tell us About the Platform Economy

Apr 28, 2016 By Jeremy Kirshbaum

Looking at High Delta Markets like West Africa show us that the platform economies are a symptom of volatile markets, not the...

Film Debut—Changing Season: On the Masumoto Family Farm

Apr 28, 2016 By Sarah Smith

The story of the future of farming is being written on the Masumoto Family Farm. Tonight, a new film, Changing Season: On the Masumoto Family Farm,...

Understand the Blockchain in Two Minutes

Apr 18, 2016 By Mark Frauenfelder

In this short video, Olivia Olson (the voice of Marceline the Vampire Queen in Adventure Time) explains how blockchain technology can be used to...

It's the criminal economy, stupid!

Apr 11, 2016 By Mark Frauenfelder

The reason banks and financial institutions are ignoring regulations comes down to simple economics. The organized criminal economy is over $2...

Living Longer, Aging Well: the future of health + aging

Apr 04, 2016 By Ben Hamamoto

We’re all aging, whether we’re closer to our first birthday or our hundredth. And that’s been the case since the dawn of humanity. But the percentage...

What does the Internet of Things look like for health and health care?

Apr 04, 2016 By Ben Hamamoto

Health Horizons is pleased to release the forecast map, Health Aware World, which depicts a future where intelligence is embedded into everyday...

2016 Future for Good Fellows take on the future of social invention

Mar 29, 2016 By Kathi Vian

Social invention is the process of inventing new social forms and practices to create a better future for everyone. It is itself social—that is, it’s...

Why We Need More Stories about the Future of Food

Mar 28, 2016 By Sarah Smith

As part of a national celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, California Humanities is convening a series of discussion forums....

Own Your Achievements: Three Ways Blockchain Tech is Disrupting Education

Mar 22, 2016 By Kathi Vian

More than 2000 people played IFTF’s most recent Foresight Engine game, Learning Is Earning 2026, following a keynote by game designer Jane McGonigal...

CCL Names Bob Johansen to Visiting Fellow Post

Mar 15, 2016 By Jean Hagan

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has named Bob Johansen as their H. Smith Richardson Jr. Visiting Fellow for 2016. This prestigious fellowship...

IFTF and ACT Foundation challenge you to imagine the future of learning in 2026

Mar 08, 2016 By Cindy Baskin

On March 8 and 9, Institute for the Future and ACT Foundation will be joining forces with students, workers, and educators across the country for...

Learning is Earning

Mar 07, 2016 By Jean Hagan

As fast as the world of work is changing—with the growth of online jobs, on-demand platforms, and even automation of white-collar jobs—so, too, are...