IFTF Affiliates
Richard Adler was born in New York City, raised in Colorado, attended college in New England, taught in the Midwest, and spent most of his working life in Silicon Valley. These many changes of scene have given him a broad perspective on American culture and a strong curiosity about what is coming next. More recently, he has broadened his viewpoint further by working on international projects...
Andrea Bloom brings to the Health Horizons Program extensive healthcare experience including expertise in wellness, disease prevention and diabetes. Andrea is the Founder and CEO of ConnectWell, a wellness programming company that educates, inspires and engages people in wellness activities to reverse the trend of rising healthcare costs while enhancing people’s overall health and well-...
Alexandra Carmichael is co-founder of CureTogether, a Health 2.0 company that brings patients with hundreds of conditions together in overlapping data communities. Alexandra has spent 15 years bridging gaps between life science research, internet technologies, design, and business. She previously co-founded bioinformatics software company...
Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of their Top 100 Global Thinkers, Jamais Cascio writes about the intersection of emerging technologies, environmental dilemmas, and cultural transformation, specializing in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future. His work focuses on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, emphasizing the power of...
Matt serves as a research affiliate, supporting IFTF's research efforts in a variety of ways. He thinks foresight and forecasting can help guide strategic approaches to social problems, and his passions mirror his IFTF research efforts on education, sustainability, social enterprise, and global development. In addition to his work on the Future of California, Matt has recently contributed to...
Dr. J.A.English Lueck is a Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and an active Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. Dr. English Lueck has a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied social change and community life among alternative health practitioners, resulting in Health in the New Age: a Study in California Holistic...
Jerry Michalski is the founder of REX, the Relationship Economy eXpedition. He is a pattern finder, lateral thinker, Gladwellian connector, facilitator, and explorer of the interactions between technology, society, and business.
From 1987 to 1998, Jerry was a technology analyst, focusing not on quarterly earnings but rather on which technologies would be useful and which would be...
Books and articles: http://www.rheingold.com
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Dr. Liisa Välikangas is affiliated with IFTF where she contributes to turning futures ideas into actionable strategies. In addition, Liisa teaches innovation management at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. She is a co-founder of Innovation Democracy, Inc., a nonprofit that supports innovative entrepreneurship in extreme environments. Previously,...
Ariel Waldman is an open science strategist, interaction designer, and the founder of Spacehack.org, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. Recently, she founded Science Hack Day SF, an event that brings...
