Institute For The Future

Broccoli: The Next National Security Imperative

That hamburger isn't just making your children heavy: It's causing a fundamental national security...

Idea Management & Prediction Markets

When I first joined the Institute four years ago, I spent much of 2006 looking at the prospects of prediction markets for long-range forecasting. For...

The Significance of Significance

A few years ago, I was at a medical conference when a presenter pulled a bit of academic magic: He showed us that the study he just finished wound up...

Your Friends as Salespeople

Via Springwise comes word of an interesting marketing ploy from Domino's Pizza: They've developed a widget that you can place on your social...

Emotional Networking for Caring and Well-being

I just got a note in my email.  My aunt is busy with her own appointment, and nobody had yet volunteered to pick my uncle up from the VA hospital...

How to kick butt at kicking butts: A novel approach to smoking cessation

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From diseased or disabled to regenerated or enabled

From the peg legs of pirates of yore to the Six Million Dollar Man’s bionic parts, we have long been fascinated with the replacement of damaged body...

From knowing what’s good for our health to doing what’s good for our health

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Tell Me What I Can Do

Jay Parkinson has a typically smart post at the Future Well asking if "viewing personalized life data changes everyday...

Out of the Box Perfect Speech Recognition

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FutureCast: Vinay Gupta on Disaster Relief Innovation

Designing with Empathy...

From Bench to Bedside to Embedded

The promise of translational medicine to integrate clinical research with health care interventions more seamlessly has been fraught with pitfalls...

What Beer can Tell Us About the Future of Local Food

Last week, the Slow Money Alliance posted the results of a survey finding that 98 percent of independent retailers in New England would prefer to...

Lightweight innovation for credit card companies

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Robotics For Sustainability

As you may have read earlier in the week, this week we here at IFTF have been collaborating with the American Chemical Society on a new Signtific Lab...

From Computational to Biological Previews

At the moment, genetic medicine and genetic research relies on collecting lots of data, analyzing it to look for statistical associations between...

The Biopolitics/Activism of Epigentic Effects

A fairly substantial body of research has found statistical links between a wide variety of factors--ranging from pollution levels to food...

The Challenges of Measuring Wellbeing

If you knew that you could work an extra ten hours a week for the next year and make 20 percent more money, would you? Your answer, whatever it is,...

From Gueswork to Automated Nutrition

Cooking is a lot of work.  Cooking healthy food that tastes good without spending too much money, and doing so on a consistent basis, is becoming more...

From Longevity to Labyrinth in 300 words

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Calling all chemists...(and roboticists)

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From Self-Experiments to Life-Doulas in 300 words

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ShopKeep Upends Retail IT With Cloud Services

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Making Health Take Less Work

Is that bagel a good choice given your genetic makeup?