Institute For The Future

The Talent Profile for Thriving Leaders in the Next Future Shock

For more than a decade, beginning just after 9/11, I’ve been wrestling with the question of leadership profiles that will be required to thrive in...

Future Shock is Here: A Future Now Special Edition

The Coronavirus is the Future Shock of the Decade: Three Things You Need To Know

Future Shock is Here: A Future Now Special Edition #2

The Resilience-Building Power of Futures Thinking in Uncertain Times

Future Shock is Here: A Future Now Special Edition #3

Imagining a Post-Pandemic World

How to build a more foresightful organization: Dr. Rene Rohrbeck, EDHEC Business School

Fifteen years ago, Rene Rohrbeck was working as a technology strategist. His manager asked him to identify the important forces transforming their...

IFTF Foresight Tool: Map Complex Impacts During a Time of Uncertainty

In ideal circumstances, we would have all been mapping out pandemic scenarios and worked out robust action plans. After all, the whole point of...

The Leadership Trilogy

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Counterfactual Thinking Is the Key to Creativity

— and a Vaccine against Future Shock

CHAPTER 1: Ramping Up to Full-Spectrum Thinking

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Alumni Insights: You Don’t Need to Be an Expert

As many of us are continuously exploring ways to stay ahead, or at least keep up, with the changing times, often we find that the methods we’ve been...

How to Form a Signals Group

Signals of change are the building blocks of futures thinking, and scanning for signals is an essential habit for any foresight practitioner. They...

Lessons from the EPIC Conference: Framing a Conversation on How Foresight Can Be Practical and Relevant

It’s a great time to be a foresight practitioner. Design, ethnography, innovation, strategy, experience, change management...people at the edges of...

News from the Future #36

Get signals, news, and new releases from IFTF.

About Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Arts Movement

In September 2018, the Institute for The Future (IFTF) held its first panel on Afrofuturism at its Ten Year Forecast at the Museum of Computer History...

Train Your Brain to Prepare

Our brains think of our future selves as strangers and have built-in anxiety about change. This human tendency and our cognitive bias against thinking...

To Protect Democracy We Need to Upgrade our Cognitive Immunity

By Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future and Nick Monaco, Director, Institute for the Future, Digital Intelligence...

Welcome to 2020

It’s a new decade and here are 5 ways you can shape it ......

New Realities of Learning

The Emerging Media Lab at Institute for the Future partnered with California Community Colleges to explore the future affordances and applications of...

The future is now.

Political upheaval. Turbulent markets. Massive climate disruptions. Today’s volatility means big challenges tomorrow. Will the future find you or your...

Welcome to the Party: A Data Analysis of Chinese Information Operations

Twitter recently released a 1.6 GB archive of tweets that it determined had been spread by the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as...

Beijing’s Computational Propaganda Goes Global

The Significance of China’s Debut as a Disinformation Actor...

Lessons from Laputa

Whenever I call a customer service line and have to sit through a torturous series of non-human interactions — “If you are calling x, press y,” “sorry...

Exploring Social VR

Negotiating trust and what's real in the new world of Social VR: From thinking about data in three dimensions to re-inventing audience experience,...