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News from the Future is a monthly newsletter about the latest research at Institute for the Future and beyond. This October 2017 issue includes "How...
Changes in the concept of work will radically change the whole society, says future researcher Marina...
Emerging technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality will provide new opportunities to communicate more effectively, productively, and...
During this 50th Anniversary year for IFTF, we look ahead to the next decade, we are on the verge of a new set of technological advances that will...
IFTF's latest research for Google News Lab reveals the increasing reliance on chat apps for sharing information means journalists have new challenges...
Positive Platforms Design Jam Fellowship Winner Helps Prepare Students for the Future of Work
IFTF Launches Future Skills Initiative ... The work + learn economy is transforming before our eyes. Machines are doing jobs no one expected they'd be...
On January 24, she suddenly got busy, posting an average of 1,289 tweets a day...
...I was, of course, not stuck in a real fire, but in virtual reality.
On Jan 4, IFTF Future for Good Fellow Drew Sullivan, director and editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, spoke with IFTF...
Incentivized Receipt is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...
Surface Hackers is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...
Churchill's Carnery: Escape the Absurdity is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...
Lunchabios is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...
Gotta Eat 'Em All is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...
Clever Kitchen Agents is an Artifact from the Future - a snapshot of what might emerge if forecasts about the future...
In the late 1950s Olaf Helmer, who co-founded Institute for the Future in 1968, developed a forecasting technique while he was at the Rand...
Nov. 29, 2017, Palo Alto, Calif. — The Institute for the Future is celebrating the Grammy nomination of the Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary...
If leaders are going to thrive in a future of extreme disruption, they must not only manage their own energy, they must encourage, model, and reward...
Most leaders I know today are at their best when they are there physically, in person as we say. When they are not present physically, however, there...
When I first came to Institute for the Future, I got introduced to Paul Baran, one of several people who is credited with inventing packet switching,...
If you don’t have some fear about the future, you’re not paying attention. Fear is not a bad thing. It’s what you do with your fear that can turn bad....
Rebecca Chesney shares three strategies for designing kitchens of the future to help you think beyond smart kitchens to kitchens of...
In 1978, IFTF published a paper titled World Climatic Change and Variability, 1977—1990: Five Scenarios, which explored the consequences of five...