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Welcome to 2020
Jan 01, 2020
New Realities of Learning
Dec 06, 2019
The future is now.
Nov 05, 2019
Beijing’s Computational Propaganda Goes Global
Sep 12, 2019
Exploring Social VR
Aug 09, 2019
Fill in the Blanks
Jun 26, 2019
The Fleet / Car and Rider
Jun 18, 2019
The Caregiver / The Artificial Caregiver
Jun 13, 2019
The Ruse / The Roshki Ruse
Jun 11, 2019
The Pass / I Shouldn't Have Done It
Jun 03, 2019
Scenes From 2027
May 31, 2019
A Wearable MRI Machine
May 30, 2019
Don't Fear The Black Box
May 21, 2019
Make It Just So
May 16, 2019
Kill Decision
May 07, 2019
Billions and Billions Transacted
Apr 30, 2019
Wetware-Hardware Hybrids
Apr 22, 2019
Homegrown Governance
Apr 17, 2019
Future-proof your strategies: Partner with IFTF
Apr 15, 2019
Simulacra and Simulations
Apr 11, 2019
Designing an Ethical Operating System
Apr 05, 2019
Equitable Futures Week Has No Boundaries
Apr 04, 2019
Digital Twins
Apr 03, 2019
Equitable Futures Week in New Mexico & Atlanta, GA
Mar 28, 2019
Cutting the Akashic Records
Mar 27, 2019
What Lies Beyond the Virtual Assistant
Mar 21, 2019
What Does Your Spoon Stand For?
Mar 12, 2019
The Ethical OS
Mar 12, 2019
Your New Telepresence Superpowers
Mar 08, 2019
Universal Basic Assets
Mar 04, 2019
Post Money
Feb 27, 2019
Embodied Learning
Feb 22, 2019
Teaching Robots How to Work Together
Feb 13, 2019
The futurist and sci-fi writer William Gibson (@GreatDismal) recently said, “give me a room full of either artists or criminals talking about what...
With the launch this week of its cap and trade system, California’s state leadership demonstrates great foresight and a proactive approach to shaping...
On November 15 the Knight Fellows visited The Institute for the Future for a workshop on the future of media and storytelling. I was lucky enough to...
As part of last week's Fall Technology Horizons conference, IFTF teamed up with Pacific Social Architecting Corporation to host a first of its kind...
In our recently released 2011 forecast report Food Choices in Flux, we looked at Brazil in 2021 “where parents who once faced the threat of hunger are...
Our first ever Tech Horizons’ Make the Future Bootcamp is on November 7-8; follow the conference on Twitter with #realignorg. Over the course of these...
Explore four worlds crafted by the 2012 Summer Interns in an interactive map of the decade that covers health, food, education, development, and...
How do you allow your kids the freedom to take risks without putting them in grave danger? How do you allow them enough freedom to break their arms,...
Biology will drive the next century. Biological-based methods will not only disrupt how we make things, they’ll also disrupt how we source materials...
Edible Geography points toward a great blog post by Jim Davenport mapping where Americans live in relation to Starbucks. Among other things, he found...
It’s the International Year of Cooperatives and I just saw Shift Change, a great new documentary that’s got me more jazzed about them than ever. I...
I recently gave a keynote at the 2012 Code for America Summit, held at San Francisco's Mission Bay Conference Center, on "A New Civics for Smart...
Next week, IFTF will be one of the participants in the annual CrowdConf event reviewing progress in crowdsourcing. Looking through the topics to be...
My friends and I like to joke about how parents survived in the “olden days”--that is, the pre-I-Phone and pre-i-Pad era of childrearing. “How did...
If you are a student, a teacher, a maker, or a thinker, I'd like to invite you to participate in a project I've been developing called WikiSeat, and I...
Educational? Yes. Therapeutic? Possibly. But these are side benefits; at heart, play is about fun. And the future of play is about taking all the...
We’re at the ground floor of the Drone Age....
IFTF has been mapping the intersections between technology, the human experience, and the future for more than 44 years. We use these mapping...
We like to look to hidden places to find some of our most intriguing signals about the future--and in this case, an unusual crime seems to be pointing...
One of the paradoxes of technological change is that as new tools are introduced, people often remain tethered to their existing tools and practices....
The experience of migration, of moving to a new habitat or locale, brings with it a magic-like experiences of the new environments. The relationship...
Sumi Das from CBS interactive stopped by the Institute for the Future this week for a video an interview with Mike Liebhold exploing IFTF's ideas...
Design and art have long been viewed as distinct fields of inquiry from science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), but the contemporary...