Jake's research examines the role of emerging technologies in transforming identity, culture, and governance. His recent research has focused on the social, legal, and political implications of neuroscience, exploring many aspects of life in the neurocentric age (see Mind in a Designed World). His other specializations include the future of justice and the courts, alternative energies, and media. He has also been leading explorations into new methods for the public communication of foresight, including experiential futures, digital stories, immersive scenarios and ethical spectacles.

Being a Futurist has always been Jake's density destiny, as his birthday is October 26--the day Marty McFly time-travels in Back to the Future. Jake received his Ph.D. at the Manoa School of Futures Studies where he studied neuropolitics, futures theories and methods (including alternative futures), and futures public engagement strategies. He received an M.A. from Temple University, and a B.A. from Auburn University, both in Visual Anthropology. His Master's thesis, "Alternatives in Anthropological Communication: Ethnographic Surrealism and Fake Documentary," examined cultural representation and the role of media conventions in the construction of truth.

• Future of Persuasion
• Health Horizons
• HH2010 Internal Research
• IFTF Staff Posts
• Technology Horizons
• Ten-Year Forecast