Institute For The Future

It's not Fantastic Voyage, but researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands developed a tiny robot that someday may shuttle a payload of...

The Associated Press has an article on a new JAMA study documenting the relationship between daily exercise and...

Technology Horizons members who participated in our conferences over the last couple of years will recall that one of the leading conclusions of IFTF...

We learn from the GigaOM blog that the National Science Foundation has backed an Open Source Wireless Mesh Project. Sascha Meinrath, of the...

HP announced a new kind of tag for putting digital information on things. Called Memory Spots, they're somewhat like RFID tags in basic structure--...

"MIT researchers are developing an approach to Mars exploration that sits right at the intersection of our forecasts about light infrastructure and...

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

"Briains, implants, robot arms, oh my!"

Celeste Biever writes in NewScientist about a man who uses brain implants to extend his capabilities....

SwapThing

Yesterday, Jessica Hardwick came to IFTF to give a talk about her company, SwapThing, which "enables the trade and barter of any combination of items...

Recently the Institute hosted a talk by Jessica Hardwick, the co-founder of Swapthing. As she describes it, Swapthing is "eBay for barter, and a...

A short forever ago (May 2004), I wrote a piece for my Red Herring blog about carpooling, digital identities, and the possibility of turning underused...

A few years ago, we published an article in Ten Year Forecast on the future of market-based environmental incentives, such as cap and trade markets....

Someone recently gave me a copy of a recent article, in Fortune, "Pack Mentality," that extracts the "free-market lessons of long-distance bike...

Last year we interviewed Danfoss Universe futurist Peter Hesseldahl on collective intelligence. Peter has recently released Snapshots Fra Fremtiden,...

"At the recent Technology Horizons Spring Exchange, I forecasted that the "bionic man" may finally become a reality in the next few decades. This...

About a year ago when I was contemplating moving to California, I envisioned a new kind of housing - basically a framework that you could bolt on...

"Please save November 6-8, 2006 for the Tech Horizons Fall Exchange! We will gather at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood Shores, CA for an exploration of...

As part of my ongoing work on the end of cyberspace (the subject of a recent TYF piece), I just read Vincent Mosco's The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power,...

As part of my ongoing work on the end of cyberspace, I recently read Vincent Mosco's The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and...

As a longtime advocate of a geospatial web, I'm constantly alert for signs that mobile wireless mobile carriers are seeing benefits of opening up...

Wired brings us a story about test tube meat. ...

"originally via CNNMoney(found on SmartMobs)...

Last month I wrote a piece on the future of personal fabrication technologies, and their potential impact on factories and manufacturing. There are...

Mapping cyberspace

"The current issue of TheThe current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education features an engaging article about how social scientists are creating...