Institute For The Future

Philanthropy Should Help Create Better Jobs, Not Just Better-Trained Workers

First look: Smithsonian exhibition explores visions of the future(s)

Pandemic forces us to reimagine future of work

AI And The Death Of Exploration

Are ‘bots’ manipulating the 2020 conversation? Here’s what’s changed since 2016.

Are baby bonds the fix for America’s racial wealth gap?

The Answers to Our Problems Aren’t as Simple as Left or Right

Social Media Platforms Need Hotlines to Report Harassment

Samuel C. Woolley is interviewed for "Social Media Scrutiny in Wake of the New Zealand Terror Attack"

Marina Gorbis is interviewed for "BUILDING A BETTER BAY AREA: Research shows Uber and Lyft pay little per hour"

Nearly 30 Percent Of Anti-Semitic Online Attacks Are Bots, says DigIntel Lab's report for ADL

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation presents "Good Food is Good Business," by IFTF's Food Futures Lab, at the Future Food-Tech conference in London.

"Good Food is Good Business," from the IFTF and the Gates Foundation, takes a look at forces that will drive affordable nutrition.

"Russian-Linked Bots Used U.S. Startups to Meddle in Elections" quotes Samuel Woolley

Future-Ready Workers? Parminder Jassal contributess to the conversation with Lindsay James for Compass Magazine.

Marina Gorbis' Universal Basic Assets Could Be The Foundation To Build An Equitable Society

IFTF interviewed in "Twitter bots are stealing social media identities for profit"

Mark Frauenfelder writes "Bitcoin’s Inconvenient Truth The founder of BitTorrent is on a quest to develop an eco-friendly cryptocurrency"

IFTF's Digital Intelligence Lab in "Indictment shows how Russians conspired to disrupt U.S. politics — but not how to stop them next time"

Samuel Woolley quoted in "Troll factories, bots and fake news: Inside the Wild West of social media"

PODCAST: Sarah Smith on AirTalk - "Future of food? There’s an app for that."

Recent IFTF forecast in "Middle East tech: These are the key trends for 2018 and beyond, say experts"

Eri Gentry quoted in "The future is healthy: CES panelists talk connected care"

"Institute For the Future and SecondMuse Join Forces to Understand How VR, Gamification Can Create Positive Behavior Change"

Drew Sullivan of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project - For Future Reference Podcast

"Six Artifacts From The Future Of Food" explores forecasts + artifacts from IFTF's Food Futures Lab

"The Threat Of Stifling AI Before It Gets Started" explores recent IFTF report

An interview with IFTF Fellow for Good Tim Hwang: "Governments probably don’t need a Minister of AI"

Recent IFTF Forecast in "The 3 Fastest-Growing Jobs Right Now, According to LinkedIn"

Sarah Smith quoted in "‘Recipes are dead’: What the future of cooking might look like"

Congrats to David Pescovitz + Friends for Voyager Golden Record 2018 Grammy Nomination

Reent IFTF Report in "Top 3 Ways Machine Learning Will Create Jobs"

Samuel Woolley interviewed in "Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal"

Max Elder pens "The simple change you can make to stop wasting food"

PODCAST: Getting to Yes, And… | Bob Johansen, “The New Leadership Literacies”

Mark Frauenfelder writes "‘I Forgot my PIN': An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin"

Sam Woolley + IFTF Digital Intelligence Lab featured in "Just How Easy Is It to Game Twitter Like the Russians?"

IFTF forecast quoted in "The 6 Jobs Everyone Will Want in 2040"

Marina Gorbis + Jamais Cascio quoted in "The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online"

Sam Woolley + Marina Gorbis write "Bots on social media threaten democracy. But we are not helpless"

"Tech Museum embraces augmented reality with Body Worlds Decoded exhibit"

"Twitter is crawling with bots and lacks incentive to expel them"

"Kitchen of the Future: Smart and Fast but Not Much Fun"

Marina Gorbis says, "To fix income inequality, we need more than UBI—we need Universal Basic Assets"

Amara's Law in "The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions"

Watch Sam Woolley's interview in "Russia weaponized Twitter to sway election"

"Hey politicians — don’t hate the internet, hate the game"

"How Dogs Teach Us To Be Better Leaders"

PODCAST: Marina Gorbis on Universal Basic Assets

"Colleges Need to Work Together to Build Competencies of the Future"

"What will grocery shopping look like in the future?"

"Where Is Tech Taking Us? A Complete Merger of Our Digital, Physical Worlds"

"85% Of Jobs That Will Exist In 2030 Haven’t Been Invented Yet""

"Forecasting How Humans Will Interact with Machines by 2030"

"How California’s community colleges are changing"

"What Amazon and Whole Foods Tell You About Your Future"

Andrew Trabulsi quoted in "Tech giants are under fire for facilitating terrorism"

Jane McGonigal: "Our Puny Human Brains Are Terrible at Thinking About the Future. And that has consequences."

Marina Gorbis: "There Could Be a Real Solution to Our Broken Economy. It’s Called 'Universal Basic Assets.'"

PODCAST - Bob Johansen: "Shapeshifting Companies of the Future"