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50 Years of Foresight-Insight-Action

For 50 years, IFTF has conducted independent futures research, designed to create FORESIGHT that leads to INSIGHT and ultimately to future-smart ACTION. This work is organized across a core set of interconnected labs that, together, build broad scans of the future landscape and lead deep dives into urgent futures. These labs are the source of IFTF’s many frameworks for action, from Universal Basic Assets to the ReConstitutional Convention.

Explore the urgent futures of today in these labs:

DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE LAB

The DigIntel Lab at IFTF uses innovative social science, multi-sector collaboration, and strategic forecasting to help address the most pressing issues facing tech, society, and democracy ... more »

EQUITABLE FUTURES LAB

IFTF's Equitable Futures Lab addresses pressing issues of social inequality driven by economic and technological change. We develop a systemic understanding of economic inequality and design innovative and effective solutions to foster an equitable future... more »

FOOD FUTURES LAB

IFTF's Food Futures Lab identifies and catalyzes innovations with potential to reinvent our global food system. We seek to understand the motivations, drivers, and impacts of food innovation and align the minds and resources shaping the future of food ... more »

TECH FUTURES LAB

The Tech Futures Lab anticipates future forces in science and technology that will combine to transform how we live, work, and play over the next decade. We monitor early signals and new discoveries to understand how social and organizational change ... more »

EMERGING MEDIA LAB

The EML at IFTF serves as prototyping studio, independent research group, and active participant in the continually evolving relationship between humans and the sophisticated media systems ... more »

GOVERNANCE FUTURES LAB

IFTF's Governance Futures Lab brings together technologists, philanthropists, designers, policymakers, and social innovators to re-imagine ... more »

HEALTH FUTURES LAB

The Health Futures Lab at IFTF explores the social, scientific, economic, and technological forces affecting health ... more »

WORK + LEARN FUTURES LAB

The Work + Learn Lab focuses on the Future Skills that will be required in a rapidly changing labor economy, as the forces of automation collide with the decentralization and deconstruction of traditional institutions ... more »

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