Future Now
The IFTF Blog
Health Horizons is pleased to release the forecast map, Health Aware World, which depicts a future where intelligence is embedded into everyday...
Social invention is the process of inventing new social forms and practices to create a better future for everyone. It is itself social—that is, it’s...
As part of a national celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize, California Humanities is convening a series of discussion forums....
More than 2000 people played IFTF’s most recent Foresight Engine game, Learning Is Earning 2026, following a keynote by game designer Jane McGonigal...
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has named Bob Johansen as their H. Smith Richardson Jr. Visiting Fellow for 2016. This prestigious fellowship...
On March 8 and 9, Institute for the Future and ACT Foundation will be joining forces with students, workers, and educators across the country for...
As fast as the world of work is changing—with the growth of online jobs, on-demand platforms, and even automation of white-collar jobs—so, too, are...
Sign up today for a luncheon celebration of the Future of Social Invention with IFTF's 2015 Class of Future for Good Fellows on March 22 from...
Join Institute for the Future’s Food Futures Lab in 2016 as we map the emerging future forces that will transform food experiences....
When computer scientist Andreas Antonopoulos first heard about bitcoin in 2011 he dismissed it as “nerd money.” Six months later he happened on...
As part of Shenzhen Makers@World, an international innovators exchange program, join IFTF for a dive into what’s happening in Shenzhen, with eleven...
Let's follow Crowley the Crocodile as he goes about his day in the year 2030, from the moment his bitcoin-powered bioalarm clock wakes him, until he...
Are the robots coming for our jobs? And if so, is that necessarily a bad thing? Research Director Bradley Kreit speaks with The Other Washington for...
IFTF is seeking a Director for our Food Futures Lab to help lead research and foresight for food and food systems, develop a multi-year vision for the...
Can we imagine new actions to turn the tide for China's environmental future? Join the Center for Emerging Worlds, Institute for the Future, and Asia...
IFTF's Artist in Residence Catherine Sarah Young shares an update from her inspiring work using art to catalyze conversations about climate change...
I'm Milton Chen, and I've had a long career opening the doors of learning to children through programs and platforms like Sesame Street from Sesame...
An urgent public dialogue is unfolding about the state of the US workforce and its prospects for the next decade as a result of changing labor...
[Reposted from Medium] The battles between Uber and taxi companies and the 1099 vs. W-2 debateare just the first signs of the upheaval emerging with...
Happy holidays! I’m Jane McGonigal. You may know me as the author of games and books like Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter. You may not know that I’m...
While Uber, Airbnb and the other players in the “sharing economy” have captured public attention, the technologies underlying them continue to evolve...
During IFTF’s Workable Futures Initiative convening in October, titled Positive Platforms for a Workable Future, we identified several urgent issues...
Over the last several years, IFTF's Technology Horizons Program has explored our urban futures with the help of leading thinkers, artists, activists...
Prisons and the criminal economy offer the same purpose: they absorb marginalized people who are systematically left out of the mainstream and the...