IFTF's Future Now draws on research and forecasting at the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto, CA think tank specializing in the future of technology, health, and organizational change. It began in September 2003.
We take it for granted that power corrupts, but WHY does it corrupt? What is it about our nature, or our nature in certain contexts that makes those with power behave in ways we find morally bankrupt? Recent research by psychologists Joris Lammers and Adam Galinsky has generated some answers,...
At the beginning of the year, Duke professor David Goldstein offered what he described as a "confident but uncomfortable prediction" that by 2020, if advances in genetics continue as he expects, they are "bound to...
"Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator. Its products are lampooned, often unfairly but sometimes with good reason. ... What happened? Unlike other companies, Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation....
On January 18-20, 2010 Alvaro Fernandez and his team at SharpBrains put together a splendid line-up of speakers on a wide range of topics related to emerging brain fitness research, technologies, and markets, and clinical cognitive and mental health...
I recently heard a podcast of a lecture given by Dr. David Kessler, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF and author of...
Institute for the Future is very proud to announce Phillip Torrone, senior editor of MAKE magazine, as our guest for the 3rd installment of our FutureCast series.
Please join Jerry Mchalski in a one hour conversation with Torrone as they discuss topics such as open-source hardware, new...
The UBICOMP lab at the National Taiwan University is investigating, designing and creating working systems that demonstrate how future computing technologies can seamlessly blend into our everyday activities: digital technology that can engage and excite people into active participation of...
I don't know why Jason Calacanis spent much of the day and night before Steve Jobs' triumphal introduction of Apple's latest "game-changer" reviewing in great detail (or as much detail as twitter posts can muster) all of the specs and features of a "reviewer's copy" of an iPad device that he...
Looking for a way to see if a drug might give you side effects--without having to deal with the whole pesky process of experiencing those effects? Science writer David Ewing Duncan highlights an experimental technology...
The possibilities afforded by a world with pervasive Augmented Reality has been a topic of great interest to IFTF for many years now (go here to read about the inaugural Augmented Reality...
Last night, I had the opportunity to participate in an informal workshop on "What Can Companies Learn From Coworking?" held at New Work City, one of the biggest and oldest coworking spaces in Manhattan. The workshop was organized by Shift, a...
I spent the last couple days at the Personalized Medicine World Conference and one of the most intriguing companies I encountered was a small startup called HolGenTech, which aims to combine genetic data and mobile...
Nadav Aharony, an MIT Media Lab graduate student, studies how that data that's passively collected by mobile devices can be used to predict the user's behavior. According to Aharony, the "reality mining" research in the...
Just a few years ago, launching an Internet startup typically entailed making the rounds on Sand Hill Road, pitching venture capitalists an idea and a business plan illustrated by a handful of slides. Today, PowerPoint decks are replaced by working prototypes and the business plans by waiting...
Every year The Edge organization asks a "world question" and Edge members answer it in short essays. Question 2010 is: How is the Internet changing the way you think?
