For most of its history, using the Internet has involved conforming and contorting to the logic, architecture, and input/output mechanisms of machine networks. Humans have genuflected before immobile computer screens, tethered our limbs to mice and keyboards, and craned our necks to use the smartphone screens in our hands. The human experience of the Internet, however, will change dramatically in the next ten years.  The technical and network foundations are being laid that will allow humans to interface with the network much more naturally and effectively. The new Internet geometry will allow permeability, flexibility, and the...

About a decade ago now, the British Medical Journal ran one of my favorite academic parodies - a review article that attempted to conduct a meta-analysis of whether or not wearing a parachute when jumping from a plane could help prevent injury or death. Finding no one had studied the subject, the authors concluded:

As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of...

May 7 marks the publication of the second edition of Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World by IFTF Distinguished Fellow Bob Johansen.

Bob Johansen shares nearly 40 years of expertise as a ten-year forecaster at IFTF in this book about leadership and decision-making. This book is for any leader who wants to successfully navigate the challenges of the present and find opportunities to thrive in the future.

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Health Horizons is pleased to announce that Brinda Dalal has joined our team as a research director. Brinda's career has spanned two decades and three continents. Her research has taken her to India, where she co-developed micro-credit and housing programs with local women, and to Japan, where she explored high-tech innovation. She’s worked for Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, co-founding their clean technology initiative and helping to inspire the invention of toner-less printing and erasable paper—which won top environmental innovation awards from Time magazine and the Wall...