Institute For The Future

IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | September

Changing the Register

Sparking a Sense of Hope & Agency

New Insights Analysis From IFTF + Smithsonian Futures Beacons Exhibit Sparks Greater Sense of Hope and Agency...

Selecting the Right Signals: Don't Ask, "Is It Good;" Ask "What Is It Good For?"

Signals are evidence of the future that we can find in today’s world. They are concrete, compelling observations about how the world is changing that...

Designing an Anticipatory Institution

In December 2020 we spoke with Aarathi Krishnan, when she was months into a new foresight role at the UN Development Program (UNDP). At the time, it...

IFTF Equitable Enterprise Newsletter | August

Public Conversations about Equitable Enterprise

IFTF News from the Future #78

We’re building a collective cognitive immune system.

IFTF News from the Future #77

Re-Working the Future Event, Knowledge Mobilization 2030, and IFTF Foresight Essentials training in...

What Exactly is Futures Thinking?

As a futurist I often get the question: What really is “futures thinking” and why should I care? ...

CA 100 MEGA Scenarios

IFTF Releases “Mega Scenarios Toolkit” To Help Decision Makers Explore Urgent Futures Facing California...

Congratulations, Urgent Optimist founding members!

Congratulations to everyone who seized the window of opportunity to help build this community from...

Deploying Artists as Futurists and Policy Makers

“What if we treated the art of cultivating dignity as an intentional economy? What if dignity was currency and the raw material to make it was...

Three Basic Steps to Creating Climate Positive Futures

Climate change is one of the most urgent future–and present–issues to consider in any foresight project. It will continue to be a major driver of...

Looking 100 Years Into the Future: Lessons from John Maynard Keynes

“We are suffering from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress is over and...

The Power of Futures Simulations to Change Future Outcomes

The following is an excerpt from Jane McGonigal’s Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything, Even Things that Seem...

How a Public Utility Used Foresight to Take Action

If you've taken IFTF’s Foresight Essentials training, you have encountered this image showing the cycle of Prepare, Foresight, Insight, and Action. It...