Institute For The Future

Contrast the glittery language of Biopolis or Phase Z.Ro with Oxford's science park, Begbroke....

Gregory Clark, an economic historian at the University of California, Davis, has a forthcoming book, A Farewell to Alms, that argues that "the...

Three years ago, Gregg Zachary wrote an essay arguing-- indeed, lamenting-- that the war on terror hadn't had much impact on Silicon Valley. In...

The receding of the Arctic ice is bringing a new territorial competition to claim the North Pole. In 2004, Danish scientists began to survey the area...

New York Times Magazine has a long article by Julian Dibbell on Chinese gold farming, people who play online games (mainly World of Warcraft) for a...

The Pharma Marketing blog had an interesting piece the other day on "Rejiggering the Marketing Mix a la Merck." ...

Came across this article from Long Range Planning on strategy workshops:

Oh no! Not more Google Health news!

Honest, I am not obsessed with Google. But they just keep poking around at the edges of Health 2.0, so I feel obligated to play along....

Happy Belated Canada Day?

As PharmaGossip recently noted, "even illegal drugs are cheaper in Canada than the US." This headline summarizes last week's report in the...

Thanks go to all of you that joined us at Calit2 for last week's Tech Horizons Spring Exchange! Materials from the conference are now online--this...

The old guard has spoken. At a meeting earlier this week in Chicago, the policymaking House of Delegates of the American Medical Association reacted...

Two pieces in the last few days, building on themes from the Exchange at CalIT2:SiliconValley.com has a piece on IBM's newest mainframe - the first to...

Yesterday, I wrote about Google's likely foray into creating personal health records (PHRs). In his December 2006 speech, Google veep Adam Bosworth...

For several months now, there has been a buzz in the blogosphere about Google getting into the health space. It started heating up last December, with...

In a fitting announcement just post-Father's Day, a new JAMA study acknowledges that the genetic mutations (BRCA1 and BRCA2) responsible for some...

I just noticed that CIGNA recently decided to make available to its members, at no charge, Re-Mission, a "shoot-'em-up" game for teens with cancer. ...

I'm working on a report on new business models in the global health economy and I came across a blog post from last year that struck a chord. It's at...

In an unanticipated follow-up to my last post, I just stumbled across a couple of upcoming webinars that may provide some insights into the technology...

We explored Mobile Health technology at our Spring Conference (see our forecast and related scenarios under publications)--and we will continue to do...

We explored Mobile Health technology at our Spring Conference (see our forecast and related scenarios under publications)--and we will continue to do...

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal article on the "Informed Patient" echoes some of the themes discussed at our recent...

How would you like to visit Rome, circa 320 A.D.? Thanks to the efforts of University of Virginia Professor, Bernard Frischer, we can now fly over,...

We knew that at least a couple of bloggers were in attendance at the Biocitizen & New Media Technologies Conference. ...

A variety of researchers are exploring the use of mobile phones as sensors and communication devices for bottom-up pollution sensing and monitoring....