Institute For The Future

Recently I spent a couple days in Oxford, at the James Martin Center for Science and Civilization, and the Martin 21st Century School. My sense is...

Synthetic biology researchers at MIT have engineered the periwinkle plant to spew out new compounds that could eventually be used in pharmaceuticals....

"I just came across this story in the India Daily from a month ago, which seemed appropriate with the long zoom message from our recent...

We've been looking at lightweight infrastructures, and now are following how those infrastructures play out in favelas and other urban squatter...

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The concept of zones of instability" serves as a framework for technology adoption. We're focused on eight (interdependent, interrelated) dimensions...

Tech frontiers and social change has been central to the Institute's work since the beginning. More recently, we've been trying to make our work more...

The fall Technology Horizons conference, "Putting People at the Center," started tonight. It builds on "Zones of Instability" work we recently...

In the course of continuing the work that Anthony Townsend and I did on science cities, I recently came across a London think-tank, the Work...

In the course of continuing the work that Anthony Townsend and I did on science cities, I recently came across a London think-tank, the Work...

I am very pleased to present the latest report for Tech Horizons members, Zones of Instability: A Context for Technology Adoption (SR-1032)!...

Last week I gave an impromptu talk at the Royal College of Art, outlining the end of cyberspace argument and its implication for interaction design....

Andrea Saveri, Howard Rheingold, Kathi Vian, and Ming-Li Chai with a team at Herman Miller have released a report on applying knowledge of cooperation...

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has some thoughts on the future of IT infrastructure that dovetail with ideas we've been exploring. An...

I follow Peter Neumann's RISKS List, and always find interesting (and usually scary) stuff in it. Today it pointed to a post by engineer and pilot...

I just came across a ranking of countries by "digital opportunity" but together by the International Telecommunications Union... it's an interesting...

Today one of my colleagues at the Institute and I finished up a draft of a piece on the future of biomimicry. We've been working on it for a while,...

Incredibly, the Indian tech sector is growing fast enough to outstrip the supply of high-quality technical workers, according to the New York...

Korea is moving full-steam ahead into the world of IPTV early in 2007, now that a tussle over regulatory authority has been resolved, according to a...

A recent article in The Guardian reports that "[a]s the virtual workplace becomes more prevalent, many staff find teamwork difficult to...

Like many new sciences, the nascent field of biomimicry has several paradigmatic discoveries that attract lots of attention both in the press and the...

A recent article in The Guardian reports that "[a]s the virtual workplace becomes more prevalent, many staff find teamwork difficult to...

I am pleased to present the latest report for TH members: The Many Faces of Context Awareness: A Spectrum of Technologies, Applications, and Impacts...

On Sept. 23 China announced the launch of the world's largest pure next-generation Internet. Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) will replace the...