Institute For The Future

"Flexible, plastic electronics have been in the pipeline for quite some time, but University of Cambridge postdoctoral researcher Stéphanie Lacour is...

SR-1003 The Global Health Economy Map of the Decade 2006...

Techdirt points us towards a novel idea for slowing down the need for more power plants. To even out the daily, fluctuating electricity demand curve,...

Grandkids having their gaming devices co-opted by their elders is a looming threat. Okay...that's a bit of an exageration, however, the popularity of...

via SmartMobs,...

There is a post at the Machine Learning (Theory) blog which discusses online collaborative research and how the right system could take the lead with...

Challenges of Moving Computing Out of the Office

The latest issue of ACM Queue is all about the future of human-computer interaction. Some of the papers are very technical, but the introduction by...

PRIMARY

Like many of us, I subscribe to more newsletters than I should. Consequently I scan them very quickly, and discard 90% of what I read....

New Markets in the Developing World's Megacities

Another sneak peek from the memo in progress. My colleague George Bugliarello at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn has written an insightful piece on...

Taking windfarms far off shore

"Deep-sea oil rigs floating miles away from land suck natural resources out from the ocean floor, why not build giant floating turbines that collect...

We've got a terrific lineup....

Bio-inspired research institute

Bio-inspired architecture has been around for a while, and was made famous with Gaudi (his building on the left), who incorporated spirals, bones,...

The changing uses of silicon in Silicon Valley

Following on Anthony's Future Now post on the future of solar power, the Mercury News has a long article on solar power in Silicon...

Fogg is founder of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford....

File Under Ethnic Diversity

I noticed this out of the corner of my eye yesterday - www.losmets.com - the URL for the Spanish language version of the New York Mets baseball team's...

Stewart Brand (the subject of a great new book by Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, by the way) is interviewed in Business Week about...

Charge Your Cell Phone While You Walk

From India comes the perfect merger of lightweight infrastructure and the extended self. I've always thought that the biggest shortcoming of the human...

Wiki textbooks

"via SmartMobsand originally NewScientist,...

I've spent much of the week working with IFTF colleague Andrea Saveri on a forthcoming memo for Technology Horizons subscribers that looks into the...

Carol Strohecker is a former MIT Media Lab Europe professor, and the incoming director of the new North Carolina Center for Design Innovation. The...

At the Spring Exchange, TH Members got a special sneak preview of some of the results of our survey with IEEE Fellows, conducted with IEEE Spectrum...

"IntelliOne's TrafficAid technology is right at the intersection of our forecasts on sensory transformation, lightweight infrastructure, math world,...

We tend to look five to fifteen years towards the future in our forecasts and maps. On the global health economy map we debuted at the Health Horizons...

Guardian on biomimicry

The Guardian has an article on British companies that are "rethinking major infrastructure projects using natural objects as their basis." They...