Welcome to FutureCast
feedThe FutureCast series is a great way to track some of IFTF's research-in-progress and join the behind-the-scenes conversations that help shape our forecasts in global trends, technology, innovation, health, and sustainability.
Month to month, we will invite guest speakers who are making the future in new and exciting ways—from creating open money platforms to re-envisioning suburbia to designing platforms for building ad hoc high-performance teams.
We invite you to call in and join the conversation (watch for announcements of upcoming FutureCasts) or to download the podcasts, share them with friends, and add your comment here.
FutureCast - Full Podcast: Dean Eckles on Mobile Persuasion
Listen to the full podcast of Lyn Jeffery in conversation with Dean Eckles, discussing how we interact socially through communication technologies as well as the “social” relationships we have with the technologies themselves.
Dean Eckles investigates how interactive technologies actively influence behavior and how people interact with systems that sense the shared environment. He is a...
FutureCast: Dr. Thomas Perls on Centenarians (Dec 2, 11am PT)
Join Vivian Distler in conversation with Dr. Thomas Perls, founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of centenarians in the world. A significant portion of the study is devoted to understanding why centenarians delay or escape Alzheimer’s disease and other brain disorders.
Dr. Thomas Perls completed his...
FutureCast: Michael Chorost on World Wide Mind (Nov 4, 11am PT)
Join Lyn Jeffery in conversation with Michael Chorost, discussing—among other things—his second book, World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humans and Machines (coming in February 2011 from Free Press / Simon & Schuster).
Dr. Michael Chorost was born with severe hearing loss due to an epidemic of rubella. He didn’t learn to talk until he got hearing aids at age 3½....
FutureCast: Dean Eckles on Mobile Persuasion (Oct 14, 12pm PT)
Join Lyn Jeffery in conversation with Dean Eckles, discussing how we interact socially through communication technologies as well as the “social” relationships we have with the technologies themselves.
Dean Eckles investigates how interactive technologies actively influence behavior and how people interact with systems that sense the shared environment. He is a researcher and a...
FutureCast - Summary Podcast: Cesar Harada on Open_Sailing
Listen to the summary podcast of Jerry Michalski in conversation with Cesar Harada about Open_Sailing, an international community working to develop the International Ocean Station as an open-source project (opensailing.net).
Cesar Harada is founder of Open_Sailing and currently works as lead researcher. Previously a researcher at MIT...
FutureCast - Full Podcast: Cesar Harada on Open_Sailing
Listen to the full podcast of Jerry Michalski in conversation with Cesar Harada about Open_Sailing, an international community working to develop the International Ocean Station as an open-source project (opensailing.net).
Cesar Harada is founder of Open_Sailing and currently works as lead researcher. Previously a researcher at MIT...
FutureCast: Cesar Harada on Open_Sailing (Aug 12, 11am PT)
Developing the International Ocean Station
August 12 at 11:00 am Pacific Time
Join Jerry Michalski in conversation with Cesar Harada to discuss Open_Sailing, an international community working to develop the International Ocean Station as an open-source project (...
FutureCast - Full Podcast: Vinay Gupta on Lightweight Shelters & Disaster Relief
Designing with Empathy
Listen to Jerry Michalski in conversation with Vinay Gupta about the hexayurt, an innovative design for lightweight shelter, and possibly the future of disaster relief.
Vinay Gupta is the inventor of the hexayurt—a lightweight portable shelter—and a thinker and advisor on issues of long term global sustainability. He is a partner at...
FutureCast - Summary Podcast: Vinay Gupta on Lightweight Shelters & Disaster Relief
Designing with Empathy
Listen to Jerry Michalski in conversation with Vinay Gupta about the
hexayurt, an innovative design for lightweight shelter, and possibly
the future of disaster relief.
Vinay Gupta is the inventor of the hexayurt—a lightweight portable
shelter—and a thinker and advisor on issues of long term global
sustainability....
FutureCast: Vinay Gupta on Lightweight Shelters & Disaster Relief (April 1, 2010)
Designing with Empathy
Join Jerry Michalski in conversation with Vinay Gupta to discus the hexayurt, an innovative design for lightweight shelter, and possibly the future of disaster relief.
Vinay Gupta is the inventor of the hexayurt—a lightweight portable shelter—and a thinker and advisor on issues of long term global sustainability. He is a partner at Buttered...
FutureCast: open-source hardware and MAKE-ing the future
Institute for the Future is very proud to announce Phillip Torrone, senior editor of MAKE magazine, as our guest for the 3rd installment of our FutureCast series.
Please join Jerry Mchalski in a one hour conversation with Torrone as they discuss topics such as open-source hardware, new hacker-spaces opening up, and the Fabber and Maker movements as they continue to develop in the...
FutureCast: re-imagining the suburbs podcast
On December 17th 2009 Jerry Michalski hosted IFTF's second FutureCast with Eric Corey Freed, Allison Arieff, and June Williamson to discus the changing suburban landscape.
Eric Corey Freed is director of Urban Re:vision, founder of organicARCHITECT, and...
FutureCast: Alternative Currencies podcast
The Metacurrency Project seeks to build platform and protocol standards that will allow multiple and interoperable currencies on the Internet. It is the brainchild of Brock (formerly of OS-Earth) and Eric Harris-Braun (of Open Money). In a nutshell, the project is an attempt to create the infrastructure for managing open currency transactions without the need for banks and other financial...
FutureCast: Re-imagining the suburbs
IFTF will be hosting our second FutureCast on Thursday, December 17, at 11:00 am Pacific Time. Jerry Michalski will be in conversation with guests Eric Corey Freed, Allison Arieff, and June Williamson on our changing suburban landscape.
Eric Corey Freed is director of Urban Re:vision, founder of ...
FutureCast: Jerry Michalski interviews Arthur Brock on Alternative Currencies
IFTF is happy to announce that we will be introducing a new FutureCast podcast series, starting Friday, November 20, at 11 am Pacific Time. Our first podcast will be hosted by Jerry Michalski, and our guest expert will be Arthur Brock of The Metacurrency Project.
...IFTF announces new FutureCast series...starting November 20
IFTF is happy to announce that we will be introducing a new FutureCast podcast series, starting Friday, November 20, at 11 am Pacific Time. Our first podcast will be hosted by Jerry Michalski, and our guest expert will be Arthur Brock of The Metacurrency Project.
The Metacurrency Project seeks to build platform and protocol standards that...
