Institute For The Future

Empathy Bugs

Emoticons? Yep. I’m talking about augmented-reality images, overlaid onto my visual input by a synthetic encephalitis virus that I infected myself...

Without social organizations, social technologies will eat us alive.

An essay by Marina Gorbis

2018 Future for Good Fellows: Towards an Equitable Future

"To overcome poverty, we have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before, and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make...

5G & The Future of Cities

Institute for the Future and Digi.City will host public conversation (with refreshments) to explore the prospects for making cities smarter and the...

Creating Change with Food + Foresight

In January of 1969 at St. Augustine’s Church in Oakland, California, the Free Breakfast for School Children program was started by a group of...

Is Virtual Reality Better Than the Real World for Learning?

VR could be a gamechanger when it comes to learning and training.

Close It 2018: Future Meets Now

Institute for the Future and Innovate+Educate to host Close It 2018: Future Meets Now conference Oct. 16-17 in Austin, Texas; event brings experts in...

IFTF gets a new Executive in Residence

Van Ton-Quinlivan, Executive Vice Chancellor, California Community College,s is IFTF's new Executive in Residence....

A new partnership between Institute for the Future and Zebras Unite aims to work with investors, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design new funding...

New Models for Getting Things Done

"Beyond Organizations: New Models for Getting Things Done" forecasts transformations in organizational...

Ferdinando Buscema is IFTF's New Magician in Residence

Institute For The Future’s first ever “Magician-in-Residence” will inject even more wonder into Futures...

Power Up and Evolve: It's Not Just for "Pokémon"

In early July, “Pokémon Go” burst onto the smartphone screens of people around the globe seemingly overnight. Within the first week of its release,...

Institute for the Future to Teach Nation’s Mayors How to Envision Brighter Futures for their Cities

IFTF will join the nation’s mayors at the 86th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors June 8-10 to help city leaders better embrace...

No Exit

Ubiquity is the persuasion professional’s best friend. The more embedded a medium or message—the less like an identifiable thing it appears to be—the...

Working and learning toward a more equitable future—from the ground up

The future of learning and working may yet be a path to a more equitable future.

Algorithms for Intimacy

Brian Christian is the author of “The Most Human Human” and, most recently, co-author of “Algorithms to Live By”. For his latest book, Christian...

Befriend the Machines to Get #futurefit—The Experts Weigh In

Working learners are people of all ages who are working their way into better jobs by continuous preskilling, upskilling, and...

Daddy Cam

Before my father fell ill and was admitted to a long-term care facility, checking in on him used to be as simple as a quick phone call or...

What are the Least Essential Skills in the AI Future?

Around the world, the workforce is gearing up for a future of robots and artificial intelligence.

The Evolution of the Quantified Self

In 2007, journalist Gary Wolf launched Quantified Self, a blog and meet-up group dedicated to what was then a niche phenomenon: people meticulously...

eSports Gets a "New Mindset" for 2026

The rumors, it turned out, were true. The Shock were wearing “Mindsets,” neuro-sensor devices that measure signals of focus, anger, and concern as...

Thoughts from the Authors

Douglas Rushkoff, David Pescovitz, and Jake Dunagan discuss "The Biology of Disinformation: Memes, Media Viruses, and Cultural...

Citizen Sensing

When the Fukushima 9.0 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear radiation disaster hit Japan in March 2011, survivors were desperate to know how...

The Centaur Revolution

Intelligence is a symphony of different cognitive instruments, with each instrument producing a different kind of sound, a different type of thinking....