Future Now
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We face a future in which our familiar templates for business plans are obsolete. This year’s Ten-Year Forecast research maps emerging templates of...
RSVP now to join us for a celebration lunch for IFTF's 2014 class of Future4Good Fellows on April...
Join IFTF Research Director Brad Kreit for a panel on aging, technology, and caregiving at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Tuesday, April...
As the demand grows for “aging in place” solutions over the next decade, families and caregivers will use design thinking methods to create spaces and...
IFTF's Food Futures Lab recently launched the Food Innovation Program in Italy. 18 students from 10 countries will create new innovative solutions for...
IFTF invites you to join Anya Kamenetz in conversation with Marina Gorbis on "THE TEST: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing—But You...
What if you could not only vote for a politician, but against them? What if your elected representative had a way of engaging in continuous dialogue...
What is the relationship between MOOC platforms and finding a job? How are different MOOC platforms thinking about creating jobs, and their role in...
IFTF is the Artist-in-Residence for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' new urban futures program.
The next decade will bring unprecedented numbers of both older people and obese people, each of whom have health and well-being needs that can be...
Mitigating the downstream behavioral and biological effects of trauma will require cooperation between health institutions, communities, and...
Join us this coming Wednesday, February 18, for a unique event here at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, USA. IFTF's Governance...
This post expands on one of four forecast perspectives in Seeds of Disruption: How Technology is Remaking the Future of Food. The research map looks...
The world of work is changing. Parents these days have lots to worry about when it comes to the financial well-being of their children, but it’s not...
Recent sunny labor market reports have generated lots of buzz that the economy is coming back. Unemployment is down to 5.6%, the lowest it’s been...
This post expands on one of four forecast perspectives in our Seeds of Disruption: How Technology is Remaking the Future of Food research. It explores...
This artifact explores how cooperation will break down traditional boundaries, transform the scale of health interventions, and create new...
While the social and environmental determinants of health are becoming targets of upstream investment, focusing vision and resources is still...
We as a society are used to the dichotomy of employed vs unemployed. Sure, some jobs are part-time, some are full; some offer health insurance or...
In our 2013 research, IFTF's Food Futures research program explored how people will interact with an emerging set of technologies to demand new kinds...
How open source design, a 3D printer & Wikipedia enabled us to play the Swedish lawn game, Kubb, on board the Millennial Trains...
As our country reflected on the State of the Union last night, Edible Startups’ Austin Kiessig released his own thoughts on the state of our food...
This artifact from the future explores how technological innovations that monitor emotional states will create new tools to help providers and...
IFTF and The Rockefeller Foundation announce the release of the Future of Youth Employment report. The report offers an in-depth look at the changing...