Institute For The Future

Explore what makes someone an ‘Extreme Learner’

Personalized Prevention: Harnessing Technology Catalysts for Change

IFTF's Lyn Jeffery speaks with The Guardian about Shenzhen, China's Silicon Valley

"The Promise of a New Internet" - #10YF2014's Second Curve Internet

From #10YF2014: "We need an audacious plan to innovate America’s prison system"

We're excited to see our participatory foresight tools help communities make the future!

Forbes covers our Future Work Skills research, outlining the top 10 skills needed to thrive in the future. Are you ready?

"The Not-So-Distant Future When We Can All Upgrade Our Brains" features 2014 Ten-Year Forecast Projects

"Blooming arts scene in the heart of the tech world" highlights IFTF

"Do We Need A 'Magna Cortica' For Brain Rights?" focuses on one of ten 2014 Ten-Year Forecast projects

IFTF's Eri Gentry writes "As Fitbits for Feelings Emerge, Whither Empathy?"

IFTF's Mike Liebhold quoted in "The Web is 25, What Does the Next 25 Years Bring?"

IFTF's Eri Gentry #6 in Techonomy’s "2013 Top Ten People, Companies, and Trends"

Marina Gorbis quoted in "Can't We Do Better?" by Thomas Friedman

Institute for the Future forecasted Amazon's drone delivery in 2012

IFTF at Future of Food Hackathon + Forum in San Francisco

Bob Johansen's Leaders Make the Future featured in "How a Volatile World Raises the Leadership Ante for Midsized Companies"

Jamais Cascio featured in "6 ways to feed 11 billion people"

IFTF's Artifact from the Future, Energy Wants To Be Free, featured in Wired's Beyond the Beyond

CTVMontreal interviews Distinguished Fellow Richard Adler: Aging offers opportunities for innovation

Anthony Townsend talks Smart Cities in Boing Boing article "Is a city a tree? Foursquare and urban pattern languages"

Anthony Townsend quoted in "Tomorrow's Cities: What's it Like to Live in a Smart City?"

Marina Gorbis quoted in "5 Reasons for Hope From a Gathering of Nonprofit Leaders"

IFTF Distinguished Fellow Richard Adler contributes to a national perspective on Sarasota's aging initiative

Marina Gorbis featured in "25 of the Smartest Women on Twitter"

IFTF Fellow David Thigpen writes, "Block by Block: Cities, Artistic Endeavor and the Future of Shared Purpose"

Marina Gorbis and Tessa Finlev quoted in "How Open Data is Transforming Democracy in Africa–And the Challenges it Faces"

IFTF's Future of Coordination Toolkit featured in "Prepare Yourself For The Coordination Economy, Where Your House Builds Itself"

Read Cory Doctorow's story, "By His Things Will You Know Him," on Boing Boing

Jason Tester writes "Citizens Will Make the Future of Cities" for The Information Daily

Bradley Kreit quoted in "'Free Data' Movement Gets Boost from Big Conference"

'The Nature of the Future' featured in "Three new books that will prepare you for the future of humanity"

Marina Gorbis profiled in The Wall Street Journal Deutschland

Marina Gorbis writes "The New Kind of Worker Every Business Needs" for Harvard Business Review

Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder speaks with Marina Gorbis about the Nature of the Future on GWeek podcast