Institute For The Future

More on food safety

It turns out that it has been one year since the outbreak of e. coli from contaminated California-grown spinach led to five deaths nationwide. An...

Here's to regulating the food chain!

My blogging has fallen by the wayside lately, not for lack of news items to comment on, but largely due to how busy the Health Horizons Program is...

Health Search Engines: A Debate

Check out this debate/discussion between two top health search engines, GoPubMed (Dr. Michael R. Alvers, CEO and Co-Founder) and SearchMedica (Cyndy...

Intel continues to play with global health

Back in July, I wrote about Intel's plans to make health care more techno-savvy. Yesterday, I came across a headline in India eNews: "Intel helping...

If you happen to be Down Under this week, Professor Colin McInnes from the University of Wales will be giving what sounds like an interesting lecture...

A hospital in Australia has banned patients who are obese or who smoke from receiving certain surgeries. The Daily Telegraph reports that Queen...

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[This is an extract from Chapter 3 of Bob Johansen's new book, Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present....

[This is an extract from Chapter 3 of Bob Johansen's new book, Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present. -Ed.]...

The National Academies' Center for Education has been working on a study of the future of computers and work. By 2030, they ask, what kinds of...

The National Academies' Center for Education has been working on a study of the future of computers and work. By 2030, they ask, what kinds of...

[This is an extract from Chapter 3 of Bob Johansen's new book, Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present. -Ed.]...

[This is an extract from Chapter 3 of Bob Johansen's new book, Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present. -Ed.]...

The Northwest Passage will soon be open, and doubtless more intrepid captains sailing between Asia and Europe will be using it. The National Snow and...

It sounds like a song by They Might Be Giants (whose children's music is pretty outstanding), but it's actually "a new book by Ian Ayres, an...

[This is an extract from Chapter 3 of Bob Johansen's new book, Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present. -Ed.]...

Bob Johansen, the former president of the Institute, has published a new book, Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present. It draws...

Bob Johansen, the former president of the Institute, has published a new book, Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present. It draws...

[This is an extract from Chapter 3 of Bob Johansen's new book, Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present. -Ed.]...

The New York Times' Freakonomics blog reports on a new study by Princeton professor, Angus...

I was cruising for something to blog about when I came across this headline: "DIY pervasive health monitor keeps tabs on your vitals." Do-it-yourself...

I am pleased to present the latest report from the Health Horizons Program--Rethinking Business Models in the Global Health Economy: A Toolkit for...

More on health in other worlds

IFTF Affiliate Richard Adler pointed out to me this morning that my recent entry about efforts to study epidemic responses in virtual reality worlds...

Virtual epidemics: playing with infectious diseases

So I was sitting in my car tonight, surfing Google News on my brand-new Helio mobile device, and I came across a story I knew I had to write about. ...