Institute For The Future

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...

Play it! Say it! from IFTF on Vimeo.We're excited to start releasing the winning presentations from the BodyShock the Future contest for ideas to...

Announcing HH2011 Research Agenda

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Will Your Bacon be Caffeinated?

Far be it for me, as someone who is on a quest to find caffeinated breakfast food, to question the wisdom of fortifying anything with caffeine, but I...

Automation's Impact on the Job Market

Current US unemployment figures are likely to persist into the foreseeable future as a result of two technological forces: communication and desktop...

Coming Soon: Personal Neuroscience?

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Seeing is Believing

From time to time, my colleague Jake Dunagan cites a study showing that the image of a brain makes people more likely to believe that whatever they're...

FutureCast: Dr. Thomas Perls on Centenarians (Dec 2, 11am PT)

Join Vivian Distler in conversation with Dr. Thomas Perls, founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of...

The Neuroscience of Cracking an Egg

There's a well-known story in the food studies world involving the acceptance, and eventual dominance, of pre-made cake mixes. In the 1950s,...