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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 Rise of Computational Propaganda
Feb 08, 2019
Who's in Control?
Jan 31, 2019
Rewriting the Rules of Reality
Jan 09, 2019
Black Twitter and the Future of Digital Disobedience
Jan 08, 2019
Complexity Made Simple
Jan 07, 2019
So You Want to be a Thing on the Internet
Jan 04, 2019
Why We Communicate
Jan 03, 2019
The Underworld Wide Web
Dec 28, 2018
The Coming Era of Autonomous Vehicles
Dec 27, 2018
My BFF is a Bot
Dec 21, 2018
Machines as the New Consumer Class
Dec 20, 2018
From Domestication to Amplification
Dec 19, 2018
Amber Case Joins IFTF as a Research Fellow
Dec 19, 2018
The Politics of Persuasion
Dec 18, 2018
The Listening City
Dec 17, 2018
Feeling is Believing
Dec 14, 2018
Rock or Block?
Dec 13, 2018
Keep Out!
Dec 12, 2018
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...
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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...
During the time of the dinosaurs, Antarctica was covered with tropical rain forests. Overtime, as the planet cooled, and ice caps formed on the...
The BBC has a great article up exploring subconscious efforts to fight crime through design. Among the ideas: Cover walls and buildings with pictures...
Via a slightly old article in Good Magazine comes word of a great student project out of Australia called StethoCloud that is aimed at using the...
On July 30-31, the Institute for the Future, in collaboration with Aalto University in Finland, invited a dozen practical visionaries to reveal the...
Author Anya Kamenetz came in recently and presented some hard truths on education. First of all it is wildly expensive. Second, it is not accessible...
You might expect that a hacker camp, like Toorcamp, is full of shady individuals who want to break into your computer and steal your data. Often...
Robert H. Girling’s latest book, The Good Company, uniquely sets the business in the broader context of its relationship with people, the environment...
Toorcamp is a social technology event populated by hackers and makers, held at Neah Bay in Washington state. I am writing from the fog covered...
On the weekend of July 30th, 2011, 20,000 spectators turned up for an event held in the Anaheim Convention Center. This was no sporting event, at...
I'm a fan of technology that gives people more latitude in their social and physical relationships. We live in societies (and environments) laced with...
My latest Fast CoExist piece is up and it looks at the challenge of thinking about how to use practices around sharing to rebalance a global food...
Not long ago, I wanted to consider how we could provide better tools for foresight, insight and action for individual people to use in their everyday...
“Why is it so hard to break out of cycles of violence?” This is the question Tessa has been thinking about since she was a child. While it may seem...
The Guardian has a great interview with a Scottish professor named Lee Cronin who is working on developing a system to create pharmaceuticals through...
Bob Johansen recently published the second edition of Leaders Make the Future. In the book, Bob presents an expansive ten-year forecast about the key...