Institute For The Future

Data Exhaust and the Future of Peer Pressure

About a month ago, I received several negative comments through Twitter about a blog post on the idea that people are beginning to threaten themselves...

20 Years from Now, You'll Have Alzheimer's

As part of our Ecosystems of Well-Being map last year, we argued that the increasing importance, as well as the increasingly confusing challenge, of...

Marina Gorbis talks Evolution of the Workforce

Watch the webcast of Marina Gorbis on Rewind with Matt Miller, originally aired June 25th, discussing the evolution of the workforce in the era of...

Product Information: What Do We Want to Know?

Recalls have made people more suspicious of food safety while a diabetes epidemic has led many to reconsider what kinds of food they eat. Increasing...

Lie Detectors Everywhere

Want to know if your son ate his vegetables? Now, based on the work of some Yale researchers, you may be able to figure out what your child, or anyone...

The Non-Ancient, Non-Secrets of Japanese Health

The Japanese people are longer-lived and healthier than Americans. Currently, that information does more to sell diet books than influence policy or...

Info Ecosystems for Well-being Conference

By the year 2020, it’s estimated we’ll have 45 times more data than we had at the beginning of this decade—an explosion of information that is often...

“Toward A Public Social Science” (2011)

“The social sciences deal with humanity’s most pressing problems, but there are barriers between practitioners and the public. We must restructure...

energyMMOWGLI, Navy Tackle Energy Challenges

Can the U.S. Navy be resourceful with fewer resources? The Navy invited the public to play energyMMOWGLI the week of May 22nd to share ideas for how...

Join Dan Ariely for talk & signing at IFTF on Tuesday, June 12

Don’t miss your opportunity to join us in Palo Alto on June 12th at noon for lunch and a book signing with Dan Ariely!Space is limited and...

The Internet Immune System

Recent news around the Stuxnet computer virus and Kapersky Lab's discovery of the Flame spyware have heightened public conversations Internet...

Recipe Networks and Combinatorial Cuisine

The field of network science continues to find new data sets for exploring technology, economics, biological systems, and social relationships. Two...

The Disruptions Facing Higher Education ...

... and How Universities are Beginning to Adapt...

Pushing the Web to the Periphery

We're spending a lot of time this year in the Institute for the Future's Technology Horizons research group thinking about how we will experience the...

How Can Games Make us Healthy? IFTF and HHS Discuss Games for Health

How can games make us healthy? On May 29th, the public joined leading experts in health and health care games—including game designer Jane McGonigal,...

Who is the Internet Human and what is the Human Internet?

For most of its history, using the Internet has involved conforming and contorting to the logic, architecture, and input/output mechanisms of machine...

What Maker Faire has to do with Leadership in the Future

If you've been to the Institute recently, you’ve probably seen this:

Book Launch: Leaders Make the Future, Second Edition

May 7 marks the publication of the second edition of Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World by IFTF Distinguished...

Brinda Dalal on the Internet of Things

Brinda Dalal joined our team as a research director in early 2012. Her career to-date has spanned two decades and three continents. Brinda's research...

Future of Human-Content Interaction

We are moving from a world in which content is created only by institutions to one where bots, systems, and platforms tweet, tell stories, and write...

Convening Leaders to Hack the Future of Higher Education

Young people today are caught in the transition between two worlds—the world of institutional production of education and a new world of possibilities...

Hacking The Future of Higher Education

Higher education worldwide is moving toward creative disruption on multiple fronts. As signals emerge that these disruptions are beginning to take...