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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
Artifact from the Future: LUNCHABIOS
Jan 03, 2018
Artifact from the Future: GOTTA EAT 'EM ALL
Jan 03, 2018
Artifact from the Future: CLEVER KITCHEN AGENTS
Jan 03, 2018
Leaders: Are you radiating positive energy?
Nov 21, 2017
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...
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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...
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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...
Recovery Project from IFTF on Vimeo.Here is another of the winning presentations from the BodyShock the Future contest for ideas to improve global...
An interesting blog post in the Wall Street Journal a couple weeks ago highlighted a startup company called MedNetworks that, among other things,...
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...
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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...
[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...
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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...
Current US unemployment figures are likely to persist into the foreseeable future as a result of two technological forces: communication and desktop...
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...
Join Vivian Distler in conversation with Dr. Thomas Perls, founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of...
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,...
An easy way to identify a future dilemma is to spot two polar, but entirely sensible, reactions to an emerging practice or...
Can playing a game online help you be healthier? Buster Benson thinks so.