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There have been a lot of great articles looking back at the history of genetic sequencing to mark the ten-year anniversary of the sequencing of the...
Mind vs.
This is a question I've heard a lot over the past couple of years. Based on aggregated lessons from the corporate games of which I've been a part,...
Sometimes, when I am really and truly immersed in something, I find myself making some truly banal, self evident non sequitur, but then treating them...
Water Studies Institute (Source) #FutureOfWater10 year old extols his 3D printer's virtues (Source) #FabFuturesEnergy Technology to 2050: Shell...
I'm going to let you in on a secret: this post is a composite of sorts. Because, as it turns out, when you are as cautious (and inept) at putting...
Michael Chorost's new book World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet is in bookstores as of today. The 5...
How biofuels contribute to the food crisis (Source) #FoodFutures #PowerStrugglePrint me a...
One of IFTF's research methodologies is Signals Scanning. This process is used on internal research projects, with clients, shared on Twitter, and...
Robots to get their own internet (Source) #IFTFRobotsNew Congress Majority Plans $100 Billion in Budget Cuts, Slashes Clean Energy...
Hacking religion is what happens when DIY culture and the Maker Movement meet religion. On the one hand, this is nothing new, just think of the...
Japanese Space Agency to Use Fishing Nets to Scoop Up Space Junk (Source) #FreeSpaceChina: Number 1 in Thermal, Solar, Nuclear, Wind and Hydro Power...
Let me start off by saying that I mean this in the nicest way possible -- I am really enjoying the lurching process of building my MakerBot, and am...
The box sits unopened in my living room and I am feeling, if I am being perfectly honest, quite nervous about cracking it open. The sticker --...
A few months ago, the automaker Nissan announced announced that its cars will soon spray out vitamin C at drivers to ward off skin damage, and that...
Want to live up to be your best intentions? Wish you hydrated yourself better? Or that you were more consistent in taking your vitamins everyday? ...
Today Rudy Adler, co-founder of 1000Memories visited us here at Institute for the Future to share about his project, which links to the future of...
One of my favorite new products of the past couple of years is something called
Today I measured the number of minutes I jogged, how many glasses of water, tea & coffee I drank, and the number of hours of sleep on which I am...
Studies of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) are taking off, with the recent addition of a study to be published in Neuroimaging today. Will...
Today's New Scientist features a write-up on a new research tool for studying human social interaction, a...
So far, most discussion stimulated by the Institute for the Future's Future of California research map and California Dreaming contest have focused on...
An interesting story in the Los Angeles Times highlights the different ways that insurance companies have begun to monitor social networking cites in...