Institute For The Future

Jan 25, 2012

Snacks, Choices, and the Future of Eating

Over the past few years IFTF’s Global Food Outlook research has focused on food choices and how the values people hold, the contexts that surround them, and people’s behaviors themselves, will change in the coming decade. Most recently we have been researching a more specific subset of these questions, with a focus on snacking among American women. What will they eat that is not part of a traditional meal, and more importantly, why?

Jan 25, 2012

By Ben Hamamoto

Food Futures, Food Choices: Ongoing Research and Public Release

This year Global Food Outlook will continue exploring how the complex global food web impacts everyday peoples’ experience of eating, and how everyday peoples' food choices, collectively, impact the global food web and the larger environment. In June, we will release our food futures research agenda for 2012 and 2013, this time focusing on the intersections of food and emerging technologies.

BLOGS

Conversation with Camilo Ramada: Complementary Currencies in South America

Jan 26, 2012

By Sara Skvirsky in The Future Now

Institute for the Future and Sharable.org will be hosting Camilo Ramada for an event at the IFTF office in Palo Alto on Monday, January 30th from 6-9pm. Camilo implemented the most successful complementary currency system in South America, the C3...

Pop-Up Urbanism to Build Community Health

Jan 20, 2012

By Bradley Kreit in The Future Now

I enjoyed, but was also a bit disappointed by, a recent Health Affairs article by David Erickson and Nancy Andrews looking at the role that community development could...

The Toxic Effects of Childhood Stress

Jan 11, 2012

By Bradley Kreit in The Future Now

The American Academy of Pediatrics released a fascinating, and potentially transformative, statement a couple of weeks ago about something that...

Locating Change: Science and Technology Controversies

Jan 10, 2012

By Gabriel Harp in The Future Now

2011 was a year of transition and change. In 2012, science and technology conflicts and controversies become a resource for locating change and what it means for the future.

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Wanted: Adaptive Encouragement

Dec 22, 2011

By Miriam Lueck Avery in The Future Now

It’s that time of year again. The global holiday of January 1, and with it, the annual ritual of self-improvement: setting New Year’s resolutions. It’s a time when we’re called on to reflect on our lives and the behaviors we...

Avoiding Short-Term Thinking In A World of Big Data

Dec 19, 2011

By Bradley Kreit in The Future Now

My latest piece for Fast Company's Co Exist site is up here - making the argument that the coming future of big data could erode our...

Replacement parts: “We can rebuild him, we have the technology”

Dec 15, 2011

By Miriam Lueck Avery in The Future Now

Regenerative medicine will replace, restore, maintain, or enhance tissue and organ functions, dramatically improving patients’ health and quality of life, and potentially reducing the cost of their care. Tissue...