Recent Publications
[Conferenece PPTs with their scripts] The 2009 Ten-Year Forecast Annual Retreat, "Superstructing the Next Decade," took place in historic Cavallo Point in Sausalito, CA on April 20-21, 2009. Materials from this meeting are available for download, including:OverviewThe Future is our chance to be new. This
year’s TYF research delves into issues from a collapsing economy paving
the way for new kinds...
Sustainability Outlook is a forward‐thinking project that explores how changing social, cultural and technological conditions are likely to alter the ways that companies integrate sustainability into their business strategies.Jointly sponsored by Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and the Institute for the Future (IFTF), this ongoing project combines IFTF’s methodologies for...
Many influential investors, seeking improved ways of detecting
undervalued companies, have identified intangible assets as the
ultimate creators of future value. New tools have emerged for
quantifying these alternative capitals. Think about the increase in
companies incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) metrics
into their public communications. Natural and social catastrophes will...
3D printers have lead to rapid prototyping and a made a significant
impact on product design. However, rapid prototyping is now morphing
into rapid, high-end manufacturing such as hearing-aid production.
Early versions of machines that can fabricate electronics and displays
alongside mechanical structures will be more widely available by the
end of the decade.
3D printers will continue to...
2007 Ten-year Forecast perspective on digital natives and civil spaces
2007 Ten-Year Forecast perspective on participatory panopticon
Science and commerce have long been intertwined. From the 17th century,
when Isaac Newton was pioneering mathematics and physics while serving
as Master of the Mint, to today, when academics-turned-entrepreneurs
are familiar figures in high-tech regions, science has been a resource
ad influence on economies and industry.
Over the next few decades, ecoscience will help make the business case...
The Future is a passage through worlds we've yet to imagine.
Human transitions are accomplished through passages – whether
culturally sanctioned personal rites of passage or huge migrations
that, only in retrospect, can be seen as movements from one way of life
to another.
In 2007 the Ten-Year Forecast team presented ten new Perspectives. The executive summary
will give you a short...
2007 Ten-Year Forecast perspective on citizens of sustainability
