Institute For The Future

I spent a few days last week in Newcastle, England - a real gem of a town for tech history enthusiasts and urbanists. Newcastle is where the first...

"In "The New Seekers," The Spectator's David Jennings counters Cult of the Amateur author Andrew Keen's bleak vision of anarchy resulting from a...

I talked a lot in my presentation last week about how the Visible World can be seen in the financial sector, which is awash in data....

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I usually find interesting stories in sources more obscure than AP Wire. But sometimes, that's as good a place as any. I just learned about the...

I have previously taken note of Cigna's commitment to HopeLab's Re-Mission game ("CIGNA's got game"), and more recently have posted about Kaiser's...

As I have blogged before, Google Health has been pushing the idea of becoming the online repository for personal health records (PHRs), and, as the...

Next door to the IFTF offices is a Blockbuster movie rental store. Sometimes, when we really need a chocolate fix, we stop in to buy a package of...

If you really cared about emerging Internet practices and their social impact in China, AND if you were trying to keep up with social media, AND if...

Billing itself as "intensive content for your health," icyou is like a YouTube for health. It offers "high fidelity medical content to explain...

From IgniteBLOG: More than half of boomers access pharma sites for health info

Healthline's Tech Medicine blogger Joshua Schwimmer, M.D. posted a copy of his recent speech about Health 2.0 from a practicing physician's...

A Healthline blog entry turned me on to Dr. Jay Parkinson's medical practice in New York City. Parkinson has no office--he only makes house (or...

As we prepare for our Future of Foodscapes workshop on November 7, we are looking at the complex issues that arise at the intersection of food,...

I must confess that, with all the attention we have paid to the future of games and health, I have always been a bit troubled that we never talk about...

I stumbled upon a blog entry that discusses research by some Spanish scientists that indicates that ordinary CD players could be adapted to serve as...

[Anthony and I are at the Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence conference for the next couple days, and I thought it would be worth it to post...

Mobile devices and the decline of the graphical user interface

I'm not a Mac fanatic, but every computer I've bought with my own money has been a Mac. I got an SE in 1988, and have gone through various Quadras,...

I've always wondered when this would start--this is the worldwide web after all.  TV Links, a website in the UK, works as a linkfinder for streaming...

Our upcoming conference in Berkeley is going to focus on two trends that are embodied by the recent success of Twitter (we call them Amplified...

My colleagues Anthony Townsend, Jamais Cascio and I are speaking at a conference in Budapest in early...

The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet it ranks poorly on nearly every measure of health status. How can...

Thanks to a new application called Life Record, the iPhone is now empowering doctors to provide mobile care to their patients. Life Record provides...

I'm not a Mac fanatic, but every computer I've bought with my own money has been a Mac. I got an SE in 1988, and have gone through various Quadras,...