Institute For The Future

On the cover of the Rolling Stone

Okay, not the cover, but the Institute blog Future Now got a nice paragraph in David Kushner's "Futurama." It's not online, but here's a bit of the piece:

 

Thirty-nine years ago, maverick researchers at the RAND Corporation broke off to found an independent, nonprofit group called the Institute for the Future. Today, the Silicon Valley-based think tank studies the impact of emerging technologies and chronicles its findings on the Future Now blog.... The stuff they're thinking about and linking to is wild-- a smog-eating building in Rome, retinal-cell replacement to cure blindness. Plus, you get insider analysis on key events, like the recent University of Michigan conference on how cities can survive a global warming crisis.

 

One small correction: Virtual China isn't a section of Future Now, but another member of the IFTF Blog Media Empire. Still....