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May 18, 2012

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May 08, 2012

By Sara Skvirsky

A Century of Transformation, A Decade of Turbulence: 2012 Ten-Year Forecast

From April 24-26, Ten-Year Forecast members gathered together at Cavallo Point in Sausalito, CA for the program's 2012 Annual Retreat, which explored the six fundamental shifts that will shape the century to come. We find ourselves facing a gap between the familiar past and an alien future: our incumbent path is predicated on trends that may well have reached their peaks, yet the emergent path has not yet taken shape.

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What Maker Faire has to do with Leadership in the Future

May 18, 2012

By Deepa Mehta in The Future Now

A blog post on Leaders Make the Future co-authored by Bob Johansen and Deepa Mehta

If you've been to the Institute recently, you’ve probably seen this:

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Who is the Internet Human and what is the Human Internet?

May 18, 2012

By Gabriel Harp in The Future Now

For most of its history, using the Internet has involved conforming and contorting to the logic, architecture, and input/output mechanisms of machine networks. Humans have genuflected before immobile computer screens, tethered our limbs to mice...

Embarrassment as a Health Design Strategy

May 16, 2012

By Bradley Kreit in The Future Now

Via Springwise comes word of a couple of intriguing ideas about how to enable people to shame themselves toward better health. The first,...

Preparing for a More Contradictory Future

May 10, 2012

By Bradley Kreit in The Future Now

About a decade ago now, the British Medical Journal ran one of my favorite academic parodies - a review article that attempted to conduct a meta-analysis of whether or not wearing a...

What Impact Investing Could Do for Health

May 02, 2012

By Bradley Kreit in The Future Now

My latest Fast Coexist piece is up here. It takes a look at how pay for success bonds could help fund a health system that focuses on social and...

Driving a Cleaner and More Resilient Future

Apr 23, 2012

By Tracey Grose in The Future Now

California’s innovation engine has the potential to shift the economy to a cleaner and more resilient future. Next 10, a nonpartisan nonprofit just released the 2012...

The Social Production of Health (And Other Themes from TedMed)

Apr 23, 2012

By Bradley Kreit in The Future Now

In his talk to close out TedMed earlier this month, Dr. Mark Hyman gave a great talk highlighting a provocative but important idea: Many of the most important improvements in health and well-being won't just come...