Institute For The Future

News from the Future #56

How will you go beyond carbon neutral to climate positive?

Stone Soup Scenarios: How to Pull in Multiple Perspectives When Forecasting the Future

“What happens when 20 futurists team up to investigate the future of family?” Institute for the Future Director of Game Research and Development Jane...

Recommendations for Assembling Your Foresight Community

No single person can claim the future for themself. The future is shared by a multitude, whether we like it or not, so it is a futurist’s folly to...

Futurist Book Reviews

RECOMMENDED READING The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Hiding in Plain Sight: America’s Working Poverty Epidemic

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Future Factors: Flex Your Foresight Muscles with IFTF's Signals Database

One of the most common questions our organizational partners ask us when beginning their foresight journey has little to do with methodologies or...

Are foresight practitioners optimists?

We asked four of IFTF’s senior staff members to respond to the following prompt:...

News From the Future #54

On track towards the post-pandemic future.

News from the Future #53

Build a Scenario for Climate Action.

News from the Future #52

As futurists, we’re biased toward optimism. 2021 is gathering momentum, and efforts to address COVID-19, climate change, racial injustice, immigration...

The Social Work Health Futures Lab: Exploring the Future of Well-Being and Justice

What does it look like to invite an entire profession to consider whether futures thinking and foresight practice should be part of how it operates to...

Feb 10-11: You're Invited! Building Climate-Positive Organizations

Join IFTF Vantage for two half-day sessions on Feb 10-11 for in-depth conversations with experts on the future of climate adaptation....

Waiting for the American Khrushchev

Who will deliver the “Cult of Personality” speech to Americans?

News from the Future #51

What a year this has been! 2020 began much like any other year in the 21st century, with hopeful New Year’s celebrations worldwide. Then, an...

Bentoism: A Map to Liberate Ourselves from the “Now Me”

At IFTF’s 2020 Ten-Year Forecast Summit we were joined by Yancey Strickler, Co-Founder of Kickstarter and author of This Could be Our Future: A...

A Playbook for Ethical Technology Governance

The daily cognitive abuse of disinformation campaigns, the oppression of algorithmic bias, and the revelations of systematic manipulation shown in the...

News from the Future #50

Scenario Building for Uncertain Times

Searching for Signals: Tips & Tricks from IFTF Staff

If you like getting into the weeds on how to find good signals, this post is for you! Oftentimes you come across signals in the course of daily life,...

One thing I wish I had known when I was just beginning my futures practice….

None of us are born expert futurists. We all start as beginners, and even after years of practice, there's more to learn. So, what's one piece of...

News from the Future #49

What Happens Next, Part One: The Future's Not Evenly Distributed

Creating Superminds of Human-Computing Resources

As technology increases, HR must navigate the digital aspects of work and transform into human-computing...

News from the Future #47

Future-readiness in 2020