My most recent Fast Coexist piece is up - taking a look at a concept I wrote about in 2010 called Embedded Health, which argues that the future of health design is to create interventions that help us overcome our weaknesses. It begins:

Samsung recently got some decent press coverage for a new prototype smartphone that uses all sorts of subtle cues--things like how fast a user types, how often that user makes typos--to gauge the in-the-moment mental state of its user, so that, at some point in...

Institute for the Future and Sharable.org will be hosting Camilo Ramada for an event at the IFTF office in Palo Alto on Monday, January 30th from 6-9pm. Camilo implemented the most successful complementary currency system in South America, the C3, which is now accepted by the Uruguay government for the payment of taxes. 

About our Speaker:

Camilo Ramada was born in 1971 in Montevideo (Uruguay) and studied International Economic Relations at the University of Amsterdam.

Working since 1997 for the Social Trade Organisation – STRO, he participated in the...

This year Global Food Outlook will continue exploring how the complex global food web impacts everyday peoples’ experience of eating, and how everyday peoples' food choices, collectively, impact the global food web and the larger environment. In June, we will release our food futures research agenda for 2012 and 2013, this time focusing on the intersections of food and emerging technologies.

Over the past year, the GFO team has researched the behaviors, choices, and emerging possibilities that will re-shape the food web over the coming decade. We combined expert opinion and theory with...

IFTF has lost a dear colleague and a bright node in its network community in December. Vivian Distler, a Director of Research and Collaborative Networks at IFTF, has passed away. Her colleagues on the Health Horizons team and across the Institute and its broader community will miss her insights, her laughter, her friendship, and her caring.

Vivian joined IFTF in 2007 and quickly became the voice of the Health Horizons Program in the blogosphere. She was also the Institute's anchor in...