Institute For The Future

But You'll Look Sweet Upon the Seat of a fMRI Built for Two

Today's New Scientist features a write-up on a new research tool for studying human social interaction, a...

The Future of Wild California

So far, most discussion stimulated by the Institute for the Future's Future of California research map and California Dreaming contest have focused on...

What Your Facebook Profile Can Tell Fraud Investigators

An interesting story in the Los Angeles Times highlights the different ways that insurance companies have begun to monitor social networking cites in...

BodyShock Winner Profile: Portion Control

Thrive PortionWare from IFTF on Vimeo. 

Announcing the 2011 Technology Horizons Research Agenda!

The second decade of the new millennium will be about finding our footing to survive and thrive in an increasingly uncertain and volatile world. As we...

Exploring Digital Media and Empathy with Facing History

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Prepare Yourself for Life in the Programmable Age

Programming has long conjured images of computer engineers toiling away in solitude, but that is quickly changing—if you follow our thinking, you too...

Honey Laundering and Authenticity

It's hard to find just one or two things to excerpt from Jessica Leeder's great investigation into the large amount of global crime that has grown up...

BodyShock Winner Profile: Educating Underserved Patients

Anjna Patient Education from IFTF on Vimeo.

Flavor Trip Your Way to Health

I've long thought that the key to being a good cook is the ability to make terrible tasting but healthy food palatable. I mean, anyone can make a...

BodyShock Winner Profile: Smarter Sleep

zedAlert from IFTF on Vimeo.Here is another of the winning presentations from the BodyShock the Future contest for ideas to improve global health that...

IFTF Releases Case Study on How to Run an Online Contest based on BodyShock The Future

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Interface Overload

One key strategy for making feedback more persuasive is to use real-time, contextually appropriate feedback. In other words, don't tell me that, in...

Democratized data for a renewed California

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Jan 12 SF event, The Power of Play: Innovations in Getting Active

In just under a week, on January 12, leaders in the areas of fitness, science, health care, game design, video games, and education will converge to...

BodyShock Winner Profile: Patient Narratives

Recovery Project from IFTF on Vimeo.Here is another of the winning presentations from the BodyShock the Future contest for ideas to improve global...

The Future of Reading Faces

An interesting blog post in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago highlighted a startup company called MedNetworks that, among other things,...

Wikileaks and the Power of the Internet

Mercury News columnist Chris O'Brien published a column this week about the power of the Internet and its potential to erode the power of nations and...

California Pioneer Sparks Education Revolution

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Fast Company profiles BoingBoing.net

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Mercury News columnist Chris O'Brien published a column this week about the power of the Internet and its potential to erode the power of nations and...

Playing with games for health

[img_assist|nid=3664|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=425|height=129]For the past few years, we've been keenly interested in how games can be...