Institute For The Future

Automation Insurance: Designing a product that pays out if your job gets automated

Have you ever wondered if your job will exist in 2 years, or if it'll be automated by then? What if you could purchase an insurance product that pays...

Some Thoughts on a Philosophy of Virtual Reality

At Institute for the Future we have been experimenting deeply in the frontiers of virtual reality journalism and immersive research environments....

New IFTF Report Charting New Paths to the Future

A new Institute for the Future report finds that California Community Colleges’ Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy initiative is reorienting...

A Bold Experiment in Uganda

Today is World Refugee Day, and IFTF Fellow Mike Zuckerman has been on the ground in the world’s oldest refugee settlement—the Nakivale settlement in...

Charting New Paths to the Future

How do you ensure that your organization is not only prepared for the future but also shaping it? To start, you need a deep understanding of the big...

Altered Anatomies

[Co-authored with Alessandro Voto] Unless it’s part of a prescribed medical procedure, it often involves breaking the law and always involves breaking...

New IFTF Report Forecasts a World of Ambient Communications

IFTF forecasts a future where network, artificial intelligence, and media technologies converge to envelop us in a cloud of data and...

Podcast: What's the meaning of 'When Everything is Media'?

A discussion with Bradley Kreit, research director at IFTF for the When Everything is Media  research...

Feeling The Rush

As we rapidly adopt body area networks, entertaining and engaging viewers will move from the two-dimensional images we see on screens to become...

YBCA 100: IFTF thought leaders make list of celebrated innovators and provocateurs

Executive Director Marina Gorbis, Mike Zuckerman, Matt Mitchell, and Ashara Ekundayo's Omi Gallery honored alongside other notables! Yerba Buena...

Evolving Nanoscale Communication

Mike Liebhold spoke with Dr. Ian Akyildiz, a preeminent researcher in nanoscale networks. A professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and founder...

Delicious Innovation at FoodInno 2017

When we look at the long-term opportunities for food innovation, we can see an opportunity to grow markets, design meaningful food experiences,...

Code:ART will transform Downtown Palo Alto into a Laboratory for Urban Experimentation

On Thursday, June 1, Code:ART will launch a three day public art event featuring eight new media installations that will reimagine downtown Palo...

IFTF Launches Work + Learn Futures Initiative

Learn and Work Futures initiative is being launched at IFTF’s Ten-Year Forecast event; aims to ensure integrated learn and work options are available...

IFTF Announces 2017 ‘Future for Good’ Fellows

Fellows from a broad range of disciplines will work on projects designed to strengthen democracy, which is facing unprecedented challenges ranging...

Apr 27 at IFTF: Actionable Matter - CCA Student Showcase

Join us April 27 from 1:30-3pm for this design showcase highlighting projects inspired by a set of forces ushering in a world of Actionable Matter....

Survey Finds Majority of Americans Don’t Think about the Future

Most Americans think about the very near future—one month from the present—every day, but thinking five, 10 and 30 years out drops off significantly,...

There Could Be a Real Solution to Our Broken Economy. It’s Called ‘Universal Basic Assets.’

[Reposted from Medium] In a healthy society, every person has the right to resources to safely live, learn, heal, and grow into the best version of...

For Future Reference Podcast Series

For Future Reference is a new podcast series from IFTF exploring the expanding horizons of science, technology, and culture over the next decade. In...

The New Body Language Collection

In the next decade, as computational power and connectivity get built into virtually everything, reconfiguring our experiences of personal...

Before Body Area Networks

Twenty years ago in a lab at MIT, an engineer and inventor with an interest in rock guitar was exploring ways to bring computers, people, and musical...

High Fashion Meets Maker Manufacturing

Fashion has always been a form of communication and self-expression, a quick visual signal of one’s tastes, allegiances, and socioeconomic position....

FUTURE NOW—The Inaugural Issue

In this inaugural issue of IFTF's new print magazine, FUTURE NOW, we explore how technology in, on, and around our bodies will help us express...

Geographies of Transition: Notes on Demonetization in India

Demonetization in India one of the most interesting social experiments of our time. Its is driving innovation in unexpected way across...