Institute For The Future

This Health Horizons map examines innovations and experiments underway in vibrant civic laboratories all over the globe and across different scales. While ecosystems of well-being extend beyond the boundaries of health to all areas of our lives, this map highlights the urban innovations that are emerging from the intersections of health and well-being.

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Over the past century, the world has undergone different forms of change in the shapes of growth, constraint, collapse, and transformation—with profound consequences to our health and well-being. The scenarios in this map follow these shapes of change. These self-contained, plausible depictions of future worlds are designed to provoke your thinking and help you develop more resilient responses to a variety of futures.

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This map, A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021, focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade: 1) Decrypting the Brain, 2) Hacking Space, 3) Massively Multiplayer Data, 4) Sea the Future, 5) Strange Matter, and 6) Engineered Evolution. These stories are emerging from a new ecology of science shifting toward openness, collaboration, reuse, and increased citizen engagement in scientific research.

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Over the next decade, cities will continue to grow larger and more rapidly. At the same time, new technologies will unlock massive streams of data about cities and their residents. This forecast map charts the important intersections between urbanization and digitalization that will shape this global urban experiment, and the key tensions that will arise.

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Science and technology (S&T) have been transforming human well-being in profound ways for all history. Yet, when many think about how science and technology will affect the future of well-being, their imagination is limited to the invention of new medicines. In The Future of Science, Technology, and Well-being 2020 forecast map, we explore how exciting developments in S&T will transform the way we respond to health challenges in the coming decade.

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In the next decade, we will share our offices, hospitals, schools, battlefields, nursing homes, and homes with a new breed of companion. A robot renaissance is underway. After decades of hype, false starts, and few successes, smart machines are finally ready for prime time. The Robot Renaissance: the Future of Human-Machine Interaction Map is a tool to help navigate the coming changes, designed to spark excitement, and even cautious optimism, about the possible futures of human-machine interaction.

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The future is our chance to be new. The 2009 Ten-Year Forecast research delves into issues from a collapsing economy paving the way for new kinds of value to a new voice rising from the Global South plotting a new path for the next big economy, to extreme climate conditions wiping the landscape clean, to a new neuroscience presenting an extraordinary new picture of humans, and much much more.

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The view from 2008 is distinctly biological. Even in arenas more social than biological, new biological identities—and new understandings of biological connectedness—draw people into unexpected affiliations. We turn to face the decade with a naturalist’s eye: we’re looking for the intricate connections that form the webs of our evolving life as if our futures depend on it.

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In recent years, rising obesity rates, a crushing disease burden, and the direct impact of what we eat on our health has moved food to the forefront of health discourse. Food nourishes and sustains us, but it also impacts our health, environment, and politics in critical ways. The Future of Foodscapes map explores the major trends shaping the future of food.

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Health benefits increasingly define consumer value. With more responsibility for the cost of their health care, people are turning to the broader marketplace for solutions rather than just the traditional health care delivery system. this trend is accompanied by an expansion of what it means to be healthy, what is considered therapeutic, and what is an appropriate site for intervention or treatment. as we move toward a world of more healthy lifestyles and holistic approaches, in the way we parent, what we eat, how we work, and even how we keep our homes, much of daily life will be viewed through a health lens.

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Open Health applies the principles of open innovation to the global health economy. It encourages the opening up of a firm’s boundaries, resulting in extraordinary collaboration both inside and outside the firm. IFTF's Open Health Map shows the larger context of forces driving open innovation in the global health economy, while the Open Health Toolkit provides 1) an overview of key issues you will need to address in adopting Open Health, 2) details of a six-step process we developed to help you craft Open Health strategies, 3) “how-to” exercises that help you think through each step of the process, and 4) Ten Principles of Open Health to help guide your innovation process.

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Technology has become integrated into virtually every aspect of work, and because we spend so much time working, work really is the place where we most directly feel the impact of developing technologies. From collaboration to productivity; from new ways of approaching workspace design to the increasing ability to work from virtually anywhere; and from hiring and recruitment to new skill sets—it is a time of experimentation for companies and organizations as trends in technology converge to change what it means to work.

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Two forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of makers is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can’t purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections.

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