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5G & The Future of Cities
Oct 18, 2018
Creating Change with Food + Foresight
Oct 18, 2018
Close It 2018: Future Meets Now
Oct 08, 2018
IFTF gets a new Executive in Residence
Sep 11, 2018
IFTF Joins Forces with Zebras Unite To Focus New Investments on Prioritizing Social Good as Well as Profits
Jul 23, 2018
New Models for Getting Things Done
Jun 15, 2018
Power Up and Evolve: It's Not Just for "Pokémon"
Jun 08, 2018
Institute for the Future to Teach Nation’s Mayors How to Envision Brighter Futures for their Cities
Jun 08, 2018
No Exit
Jun 01, 2018
The Coming Era of Autonomous Vehicles
May 11, 2018
Daddy Cam
May 03, 2018
The Evolution of the Quantified Self
May 01, 2018
eSports Gets a "New Mindset" for 2026
Apr 26, 2018
Thoughts from the Authors
Apr 19, 2018
Citizen Sensing
Apr 18, 2018
The Centaur Revolution
Apr 16, 2018
Making Miku
Apr 10, 2018
News From the Future #2
Apr 05, 2018
Take to the Cyber Streets!
Apr 04, 2018
Back to the Future?
Mar 30, 2018
Legends In VR
Mar 27, 2018
News From the Future #1
Mar 12, 2018
Better Than Being There
Mar 07, 2018
FUTURE NOW - When Everything is Media
Feb 28, 2018
The Promise and Problems of Chat Apps in Journalism
Feb 26, 2018
Get Fit for Tomorrow's Work + Learn Economy
Feb 16, 2018
The Future of Computational Propaganda
Feb 07, 2018
PODCAST: A conversation with Drew Sullivan of OCCRP
Jan 04, 2018
Artifact from the Future: INCENTIVIZED RECEIPT
Jan 03, 2018
Artifact from the Future: SURFACE HACKERS
Jan 03, 2018
Today Knight announced the 126 finalists selected for the inaugural Knight Cities Challenge, and I'm thrilled to report that 2 ideas from IFTF made...
Hivos recently published Social Innovation in Practice, a collection of stories about what social innovation looks from the voices of activists and...
As we move into an era of abundant data, we will see a proliferation of creative ways to identify the hidden, and often surprising, metrics that...
In recent years, traditional health care players have begun expanding their reach outside of health care settings and into our homes and workplaces,...
Reciprocity is a basic human instinct. Advantage is a requirement for success in any endeavor. Bringing these two together to create a Reciprocity...
As we turn to the New Year, IFTF Executive Director, Marina Gorbis, reflects on the most memorable moments in her work. We hope that our work inspires...
Apply today for a new master’s degree in Italy centered on food, technology, and innovation and built on Institute for the Future's Seeds of...
When I envision a future for good, I see a world in which science has been made accessible to all. This is the future that I have been exploring as...
One of my favorite things from last week’s Foresight Practitioner Training was the combination of discussions around understanding methodological...
Not 25 years ago, access to the Internet was confined to government research labs and universities. Today, the smartphone in my pocket not only...
Automation is an elephant. It’s been marching forward at a steady pace for two hundred years, give or take. For the vast majority of these...
As we all spend #GivingTuesday thinking about giving back, IFTF invites you to think about giving to the future. See our new map, The Future of...
Today – and for the next couple of days – we'll share highlights from our inaugural Foresight Practitioners workshop. Follow...
In September, IFTF Research Director Miriam Lueck Avery and Distinguished Fellow Jamias Cascio shared their thoughts on the future of our germs,...
We are at a pivotal moment for health care in the U.S. We can resist change, and work to keep the status quo in place. We can muddle along and...
Earlier this year IFTF started a new partnership with United Nations Development Program’s Sudan office. Together we are embarking on a long-term...
Kids everywhere have a new excuse for playing games instead of doing their homework—it turns out the right games could improve their likelihood of...
As the nature of work is changing, so too are the skills required to succeed in the workforce. This blog post examines 3 new critical skills for...
Since James Watson and Francis Crick first described the structure of DNA in 1953, the double-helix has provided a blueprint for creating and...
On November 12 and 13 the Health Horizons team will convene an incredible group of experts, entrepreneurs, and healthcare innovators to explore life...
Featured in The Atlantic: “The Not-So-Distant Future When We Can All Upgrade Our Brains”...
Did you know one metric ton of circuit boards contains 40-800 times as much gold as one metric ton of gold ore? Not to mention that up to 40% of...
In late September, IFTF's Rebecca Chesney shared our food futures research at Five Thot's Idea People Thinking: Food event. From the relationship...
Each year, IFTF’s Technology Horizons Program conducts original research examining the underlying shifts taking place in science and technology,...