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Global Food Outlook Virtual Exchange
Mar 19, 2013
The Coming Age of Networked Matter
Mar 05, 2013
Checking-in to Well-being
Mar 04, 2013
Shanzhai: An Open Platform for Innovation at SXSW
Feb 27, 2013
Are Artists the Future of Community Health?
Feb 25, 2013
The Stories of Our Time
Feb 20, 2013
Governance Futures Lab: Now is the Time
Feb 01, 2013
Tim Ferriss Visits the Future
Jan 31, 2013
Clowns, Placebos and the Future of the Care Effect
Jan 28, 2013
The Nation Takes on Civic Hacking
Jan 24, 2013
PMWC Preview: Cancer Commons
Jan 23, 2013
Remembering Aaron Swartz from the Amazon
Jan 18, 2013
PMWC Preview: Personalizing Health Systems
Jan 17, 2013
PMWC Preview: Colin Hill on Big Data Analytics
Jan 14, 2013
Crowdsourced Inclusive Futures
Jan 09, 2013
Connected Citizens: Re-imagine How Government Works
Jan 08, 2013
Remembering Andrew J. Lipinski 1920-2012
Jan 07, 2013
Seven Transformations for Children at Play
Jan 07, 2013
Future of the Hospital: Announcing Challenge #3
Jan 03, 2013
Maker Cities
Jan 03, 2013
Awards + Judges: Future of the Hospital
Jan 03, 2013
Global Food Outlook Goes to Brazil
Dec 19, 2012
Future of the Hospital: Announcing Challenge #2
Dec 19, 2012
The Energiewende: Germany’s Energy Transition
Dec 18, 2012
Kopimism
Dec 14, 2012
HH Previews Personalized Medicine World Conference
Dec 12, 2012
The Japanese people are longer-lived and healthier than Americans. Currently, that information does more to sell diet books than influence policy or...
By the year 2020, it’s estimated we’ll have 45 times more data than we had at the beginning of this decade—an explosion of information that is often...
“The social sciences deal with humanity’s most pressing problems, but there are barriers between practitioners and the public. We must restructure...
Can the U.S. Navy be resourceful with fewer resources? The Navy invited the public to play energyMMOWGLI the week of May 22nd to share ideas for how...
Don’t miss your opportunity to join us in Palo Alto on June 12th at noon for lunch and a book signing with Dan Ariely!Space is limited and...
Recent news around the Stuxnet computer virus and Kapersky Lab's discovery of the Flame spyware have heightened public conversations Internet...
The field of network science continues to find new data sets for exploring technology, economics, biological systems, and social relationships. Two...
... and How Universities are Beginning to Adapt...
We're spending a lot of time this year in the Institute for the Future's Technology Horizons research group thinking about how we will experience the...
How can games make us healthy? On May 29th, the public joined leading experts in health and health care games—including game designer Jane McGonigal,...
For most of its history, using the Internet has involved conforming and contorting to the logic, architecture, and input/output mechanisms of machine...
If you've been to the Institute recently, you’ve probably seen this:
May 7 marks the publication of the second edition of Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World by IFTF Distinguished...
Brinda Dalal joined our team as a research director in early 2012. Her career to-date has spanned two decades and three continents. Brinda's research...
Higher education worldwide is moving toward creative disruption on multiple fronts. As signals emerge that these disruptions are beginning to take...
Higher education worldwide is moving toward creative disruption on multiple fronts. As signals emerge that these disruptions are beginning to take...
Higher education worldwide is moving toward creative disruption on multiple fronts. As signals emerge that these disruptions are beginning to take...
IFTF would like to invite you to the first annual Super Happy Block Party Hackathon. If you have ever been the a hackathon before, all you need to...
Via NPR's Food Blog comes word of an urban foraging project in Seattle called the Beacon Food Forest. The concept is simple: Populate vacant space...
Design fiction is a powerful tool for helping us think about the future. Often times, the goal in creating a design fiction is to explore what a...
My lates Fast Coexist piece is available here. In it, I argue that medical microwork is emerging as a means to improve global health-as well as an...
The Chinese government is taking a softer, more cuddly approach to marketing its one child policy, according to an article in yesterday's Gaurdian....