Institute For The Future

Sony PlayStation3s to be used for Folding@Home project

via SmartMobs,...

Fall Exchange: Bottom-Up Forecasting

"I am pleased to invite you to the Tech Horizons Fall Exchange--Bottom-Up Forecasting: Putting People at the Core! We will gather at the Hotel Sofitel...

Two Thursday’s ago I extended my commute down 101 to attend the 4th annual Global Social Business Incubator business plan presentations at the...

Humanitarian engineer

Amy Smith is a "humanitarian engineer." Her aim is to tackle big problems faced by rural villagers in developing nations that might be solved using...

The city as laboratory

Another data-point in my and Anthony Townsend's ongoing study of how R&D is turning into an urban enterprise-- and often turning cities into hothouses...

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

Napa...allow me to introduce you to Sensory Transformation

Sensory Transformation is a theme that sprang from our work on the future of Science & Technology. And Fortune shares a story called "The Grapes of...

I'm only half joking with the title of the post. When I was at Britannica, I spent forever trying to commission a set of 3D visualizations of...

"Shakemovie, the future of science"

I'm only half joking with the title of the post. When I was at Britannica, I spent forever trying to commission a set of 3D visualizations of...

The essay on rapid prototyping, personal fabrication, and the future of manufacturing has appeared in the latest issue of Samsung DigitAll Magazine....

Pheeder - Multicast Shouts thru Cell Phone Networks

A former student of mine at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, John Geraci (creator of NeighborNode) has a new project out called Pheeder....

Fry basket wifi antenna

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"It seems a lot of folks are adding the tag "2.0" to the end of a word to make it the "new, new...

"Members of our Ten-Year Forecast Program are familiar with the work of William Mitchell, director of the MIT Media Lab's Smart Cities research group....

Seth Godin shares his thoughts about The Chicago Tribune's Havana Bureau Chief: ...

A couple of years ago, as part of our work on Cybernomadics, IFTF forecasted the blending of the real money economy and virtual economy. I'm amazed...

"Sony just announced a tiny and relatively inexpensive GPS receiver in a keychain form factor. The GPS-CS1, retailing for $150, is designed to...

An article at PhysicsWeb describes an organic molecular transistor that can be used as an ultrasensitive chemical sensor. The transistor is a...

The gecko must be one of the most-studied animals in the world today, thanks to its ability to climb virtually any surface. A number of engineers are...

Yahoo! Design Expo

Yesterday I went to the Yahoo Design Expo, an event bringing together bright design students from the U.S., England, and Brazil....

Back in May I blogged about the DIY gunshot trauma ward that some gangsters had set up in East Palo Alto... now a basement cosmetic surgery clinic has...

Bill Gates demands knowledge sharing

via David Bollier's On the Commons,...

The Age of User Experience

Andreas Pfeiffer argues in ACM Ubiquity that features don't matter any more; user experience is...

Fast Company has a great article about how cities are increasingly being centered on airports, and the importance of air cargo in all aspects of the...