Institute For The Future

This is a bit of an update of a 2006 article in GigaOm on cafes as the new garages, but still worth noting. Today's San Francisco Chronicle has a long...

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You might classify this as a story about 1) the need to have a plan to smoothly bring backup computer systems online, or 2) a glimpse into what...

In environmental economics circles, one of the more famous graphs (and concepts) is the Economics Kuznets Curve. It's an inverse U-shape, and it...

I've recently been doing some work on the future of sustainability. The project is part intellectual history (how are people and organizations going...

Two recent developments in the world of abundant computing - Orion, which claims to be the world's first practical quantum computer was...

The recent JetBlue meltdown reminded me of some of the key lessons from a fascinating book by MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, that I've been reading on...

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Wal-Mart's RFID rollout is hitting some major...

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Wal-Mart's RFID rollout is hitting some major snags....

A little over a year ago the Institute published a set of reports on the future of RFID. One of the things we argued was that in the future, RFID tags...

This comes out of South Korea, but it's got to be the work of either North Korean or Chinese...

A little over a year ago the Institute published a set of reports on the future of RFID. One of the things we argued was that in the future, RFID tags...

Okay, not the cover, but the Institute blog Future Now got a nice paragraph in David Kushner's "Futurama." It's not online, but here's a bit of the...

Nature has a short, yet very disturbing, report [sub req] that the Association of American Publishers has hired a well-known, controversial PR figure...

Nature has a short, yet very disturbing, report [sub req] that the Association of American Publishers has hired a well-known, controversial PR figure...

The New York Times has an article about a trend among universities and colleges to invest in New Urbanism-style town development, as a way to create...

I am pleased to present the latest edition in the Health Horizons Signals Series: Ecological Health Literacy (SR-978C). ...

I am very pleased to present two new research memos from the Tech Horizons Program. Innovation in the Urban Wilderness: Lightweight Infrastructure...

A recent National Geographic article reported on research suggesting that some earthquakes are caused by human...

Sometimes we get so wedded to our own forecasts, because they become part of a web of stories we tell, that we forget to update them over time. I was...

Malcolm Galdwell has a great article in the latest New Yorker on "Enron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information." It's about contrasting...

Well, almost certainly not the cover, but I did an e-mail interview tonight with a journalist who's writing an article for RS about blogging the...

A recent National Geographic article reported on research suggesting that some earthquakes are caused by human activity....

The new speciality of neuroeconomics is generating lots of interesting results for economists; I've sometimes wondered if we might one day get a much...