Institute For The Future

Terreform Exhibit - City of the Future

IFTF's store front on 225 Hamilton Ave currently holds the newly installed Terreform Exhibit. Check it out...

Feb 14 | Book talk: Ashton Applewhite - A Future Without Ageism

IFTF is honored to host author and activist Ashton Applewhite on Feb 14 at 10am, as she takes us through her book "This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto...

Podcast: Bob Johansen on the Future of Leadership

The emerging world needs skills in managing dilemmas, not solving problems. Bob Johansen speaks with Second City Works, the business arm of The Second...

Jan 10 - How to Destroy Democracy: An urgent conversation

Institute for the Future invites you to join us January 10, 2017 for an eye-opening discussion about global politics, corruption, and our best hope...

Igniting Leadership in the Post-ACA Decade

Almost 7 years after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed and 5 years since it was upheld in the Supreme Court, leadership, foresight, and...

Eating for Change: 2017 Food Futures Lab Research Agenda

Why do we eat what we eat? This has never been a simple question. Over the next decade, many of the basic assumptions we make about how, when, and why...

Making the Gig Economy Work for Everyone

IFTF had an open call for interested people to come to its offices in Palo Alto, California on Nov 30 & Dec 1, 2016 to participate in a two-day...

Podcast: Black Lives Rising (in STEM)

As the nation's first African American president winds up his tenure with majority approval ratings, African Americans in science and tech are...

Dispatch from the Future of Sanitation - 1st Global Toilet Business Innovation Summit

On November 15-17 The Toilet Board Coalition hosted the 1st Global Toilet Business, Innovation, and Investment Summit in Mumbai, India. I participated...

Podcast: Trust, Faith & Trump

Trust and faith help any relationship, including the relationship between citizens and their government. What happens when trust is at a record low,...

Podcast: What does it mean to be human in an age of machines?

As we see more automation in the world, and as jobs are automated away, humans need to keep jumping to the next step of value and search for the...

Who owns your future?

We need to change the way we think about the future—from figuring out who is right about what will happen, to using a place that does not yet exist to...

Podcast: Borders and belonging

Few issues hit more of an emotional chord, or an emotional nerve than those around borders and belonging, immigration and...

Ten-Year Forecast 2017: Geographies of Transition

Join us in 2017 as we navigate the business landscape of the next decade and map the quickly-shifting boundaries of our organizations, industries, and...

Technology Horizons Fall 2016 Member Retreat: When Everything is Media

Technology Horizons members join IFTF for the Fall Research Retreat, New Experiences of Ambient Communications: When Everything is Media, on November...

Nov 2 Book Talk: Brian Christian - Algorithms to Live By

IFTF is honored to host Brian speaking about Algorithms to Live By on Wednesday, November 2 at 5:30 pm. Join us as we dig deeper into the computer...

Podcast: Rule Britannia

Is Britain's decision to free itself of EU control about sovereignty, identity or something else entirely? It's complicated, and often not in the ways...

IFTF Uncovers Seven New Worker Archetypes of the On-Demand Economy

IFTF releases a new report aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of a new breed of worker in order to create a system that ensures a workable future...

Technology Horizons 2017 Research: Toward an Internet of Actions

Ubiquitous networking has transformed cyberspace into a pervasive layer atop our physical reality. Meanwhile, the emerging Internet of Things promises...

Podcast: Who are 'we'?

People have been moving around, and borders have been shifting around, for as long as there have been people. Who gets to say who belongs, and who...

Sept 29: David Rolf on the New Minimum Wage

Join us Sept 29 for a lunch conversation with David Rolf on the future of the labor movement in the U.S. David is president of SEIU 775 in Seattle and...

Meet Mike Zuckerman: Secret aid worker + IFTF Fellow

Institute for the Future is pleased to announce that Mike Zuckerman is joining our community as an IFTF Fellow. Mike is a self-described culture...

To Expand Your Thinking, Explore the History of Your Industry

Professionals tend to see the operational structure of their institutions as reflections of the natural state of things. From their vantage point, new...

Join us! Counterfactual Cuisine: A night with the Center for Genomic Gastronomy

Join IFTF's Food Futures Lab for our next Edible Futures event on October 12, featuring artists from the Center for Genomic Gastronomy. We'll explore...