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"From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter," by Bruce Sterling, is a story from An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked...
"Water," by Ramez Naam, is a story from An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter—a collection of six original science...
White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (@WhiteHouseOSTP) honored Citizen Scientist Champions of Change, individuals and organizations...
How can you know whether you are changing the world? Are you mistaking vanity metrics for impact? ...
"Social Services," by Madeline Ashby, is a story from An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter—a collection of six...
This story is one chapter from An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter, a collection of six original science fiction...
"By His Things Will You Know Him," by Cory Doctorow for the Institute for the Future - A funeral becomes an occasion for a son to understand his...
While American cities are rightfully viewed as rich pools of human capital, innovation and industry, they are also often seen in the opposite light,...
A rapid explosion of tools and services, from microworking and crowdsourcing platforms to sensor technologies, is reshaping health and well-being....
Why are our governments failing us and failing the future?...
What are the biggest challenges facing governance in the Anthropocene Epoch?...
On June 1-2, the inaugural National Day of Civic Hacking will take place in cities across the United States, bringing together governments,...
IFTF is proud to welcome six global thinkers for our first Future for Good Fellowship Program, a four-month partnership to bring together futures...
For most of its history, using the Internet has involved conforming and contorting to the logic, architecture, and input/output mechanisms of machine...
On May 21, we are partnering with Health 2.0 and the Foundation for Healthcare Innovation for the inaugural Healthy Communities Data Summit, which...
On May 16-17, our Technology Horizons Program will embark on a journey through three future time horizons— past the present era of Abundant Data,...
On April 11-12, IFTF’s Ten-Year Forecast program hosted the Cavallo Maneuver—an experiment in alternate reality games and augmented reality spaces....
From fiscal cliffhangers and precarious political unions to regulatory capture and endemic corruption, it’s difficult to find almost anyone these days...
I had a fun correspondence with new friend and neighbor, Annalee Newitz, about Kopimism, my favorite new religion. My pontifications made it into into...
TEDMED 2013 reached an unprecedented audience of over 200,000 people with live simulcasts in 2,700 locations in 81 countries. On April 17, Institute...
If you're interested in how young people live, what they're doing with their mobiles, and evolving social conventions around video communication, sign...
We need a new generation of Social Inventors to meet the challenge of governance in the Anthropocene Epoch. We need...
Today, we live in a highly networked world. An astounding array of everyday objects—from food to furniture, buildings to bodies, cars to cities—are...
This year’s Health Horizons research focuses on shifting authorities in the well-being space and here on the blog, we’ve been looking, in particular,...