Institute For The Future

News from the Future #59

IFTF Foresight Essentials mid-year update

Drivers and Signals: How Are They Different?

Signals and drivers are two pillars of foresight practice at IFTF, yet many workshop attendees struggle to fully understand the two concepts and how...

News From the Future #58

Moving towards an equitable future: 2021, Pride, and Juneteenth!

News from the Future #57

Who owns your attention?

Rediscover Your Inner Futurist

I have found that those of us who have the privilege of spending our days thinking about the future tend to have a complex relationship with the title...

Avoid These Common Mistakes in Your Foresight Practice

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News from the Future #56

How will you go beyond carbon neutral to climate positive?

Stone Soup Scenarios: How to Pull in Multiple Perspectives When Forecasting the Future

“What happens when 20 futurists team up to investigate the future of family?” Institute for the Future Director of Game Research and Development Jane...

How to Assemble Your Foresight Community

No single person can claim the future for themself. The future is shared by a multitude, whether we like it or not, so it is a futurist’s folly to...

Futurist Book Reviews

RECOMMENDED READING The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Hiding in Plain Sight: America’s Working Poverty Epidemic

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Future Factors: Flex Your Foresight Muscles with IFTF's Signals Database

One of the most common questions our organizational partners ask us when beginning their foresight journey has little to do with methodologies or...

Are Foresight Practitioners Optimists?

We asked four of IFTF’s senior staff members to respond to the following prompt:...

News From the Future #54

On track towards the post-pandemic future.

News from the Future #53

Build a Scenario for Climate Action.

News from the Future #52

As futurists, we’re biased toward optimism. 2021 is gathering momentum, and efforts to address COVID-19, climate change, racial injustice, immigration...

The Social Work Health Futures Lab: Exploring the Future of Well-Being and Justice

What does it look like to invite an entire profession to consider whether futures thinking and foresight practice should be part of how it operates to...

Feb 10-11: You're Invited! Building Climate-Positive Organizations

Join IFTF Vantage for two half-day sessions on Feb 10-11 for in-depth conversations with experts on the future of climate adaptation....

Waiting for the American Khrushchev

Who will deliver the “Cult of Personality” speech to Americans?

News from the Future #51

What a year this has been! 2020 began much like any other year in the 21st century, with hopeful New Year’s celebrations worldwide. Then, an...

Bentoism: A Map to Liberate Ourselves from the “Now Me”

At IFTF’s 2020 Ten-Year Forecast Summit we were joined by Yancey Strickler, Co-Founder of Kickstarter and author of This Could be Our Future: A...

A Playbook for Ethical Technology Governance

The daily cognitive abuse of disinformation campaigns, the oppression of algorithmic bias, and the revelations of systematic manipulation shown in the...

News from the Future #50

Scenario Building for Uncertain Times