Institute For The Future

Simulation in Pedestrian Movement Modeling

I recently returned from the 3rd annual meeting on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management where I gave a paper I wrote on how...

Collaborative mapping

One of our examples in our Perspective on transdisciplinarity is AuthorMap, a project by the Visualization and Information Retrieval at Drexel. Their...

Future of manufacturing

Another version of the article I've been working on, thinking about the future of personal fabrication technologies. Upon mature reflection, it's...

I recently had a short, interesting exchange with Yale designer Jessica Helfand on scrapbooks, baby blogs, and the future of public and private...

Ubiquitous health monitoring in South Korea

via SmartMobs and originally Digital Chosunilbo,

A Local Twist on Lightweight Infrastructure

Today I picked up the local Palo Alto paper at the coffee shop across the street and ran into a great example of lightweight infrastructure being...

Kevin Kelly: Keynote Speaker at Tech Horizons Conference

Kevin Kelly will give the closing keynote at the upcoming Tech Horizons Conference May 23-25. Kevin is currently sharing his book-in-progress on his...

Information Design

originally posted at BoingBoing,

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It's an article of faith among scholars in the field of science and technology studies that the design of technologies, and the ways they're evaluated...

longterm risk management in rural China

There are many new risks in contemporary China--the risk of losing one's job and being subject to a free labor market, the risk of becoming priced out...

Reputation...who has it?

Auren Hoffman's new company, RapLeaf is up and running. He writes about a book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, that I read back in January. ...

Managing risk through networks

In managing and communicating risk people can mobilize a variety of cultural tools. Melora, one of the people in our Silicon Valley portion of GEN's...

I just wrote an article on the changing Indian consumer culture for Ambidextrous, a magazine published by the Stanford School of Design. If you are...

The Problem With Cheap Laptops

Those of you who also are members of IFTF's Ten Year Forecast program may have read our exclusive interview with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the...

IEEE Survey

I have been analyzing the responses from the survey we conducted along with IEEE of experts on science and technology. We had asked the experts their...

Larry Smarr: Keynote Speaker at Upcoming Conference

Larry Smarr, Founding Director California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology and Professor, Computer Science & Engineering,...

While preparing for a seminar on the future of China's Internet hosted by IFTF colleague Lyn Jeffery leader of IFTF's Virtual China project (blogged...

Google aggregates knowledge internally as well

via CooperationCommons blog,...

DIY television takes you to Beijing

Danwei TV now has its own website here. Danwei TV is the brainchild of the authors of the excellent Chinese media blog, Danwei, and features smart,...

"Virtual game, real dollars, available at your ATM"

We Make Money Not Art reports that a massive multiplayer online game has taken the next step in translating virtual currency into real...

From rapid prototyping to personal fabrication

I've spent the last couple days working on an article for a technology magazine on the future of personal fabrication. I've long been fascinated by...

I've spent the last couple days working on an article for a technology magazine on the future of personal fabrication. I've long been fascinated by...

Investigating the two-year future

Here at IFTF, our sweet spot for research is the 3 - 10 year range (though with our efforts in science and technology over the last year, we have...