Institute For The Future

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My latest article, on the nature and future of tinkering, appears today in issue 22 of Vodafone Receiver:...

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It isn’t long since Dambisa Moyo's book Dead Aid was published. For the most part, people without experience in either development work or Africa...

The emergence of the Chinese middle-class is changing the world. The next ten years will see the growing impact of a distinctly Chinese form of...

A new youth media literacy is emerging. As the authors of cultural products, today’s young people are driving a rapid expansion of participative...

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Hope Phones a Signal of Mobile Health Experimentation

In the recently released IFTF report entitled, Booting Up Mobile Health: From Medical Mainframe to Distributed Intelligence, we forecast that there...

The Future of Video: Authorship, Appropriation, and Control from Institute for the Future on Vimeo....

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Lindsay Lunnum, a young parish priest writing for the Trinity News, the magazine of Trinity Wall Street Church in New York City, recently interviewed...

I just finished reading the Dinokeng Scenarios and am really happy. How nice that the world is producing such wonderful things. I hope these 3...

More Direct To Consumer Genetics

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Now that elections in India are over, the ballots have been cast and counted, and we know who is the winner, I thought it would be a great exercise to...

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Swine Flu Parties?

Taking a cue from chicken pox parties, stray groups of people around the country are apparently looking into holding Swine Flu Parties--something, I...

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Jacob Zuma, popularly known as JZ, was sworn in as the 4th president of South Africa on May 9th 2009. ...

Swapping Kidneys With Strangers

Health insurer Aetna has awarded a $50,000 grant to the National Kidney Registry to help the young nonprofit connect potential organ donors with...

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