Institute For The Future

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...

IFTF awards Fellowships worldwide to help create a Positive Gig Economy

Teams in Ireland, Italy, Spain and the U.S. were awarded fellowships to tackle challenges and seize opportunities of the on-demand economy. The...

Mar 1 | Event: Inclusion under Trump

Join us for a conversation to uncover hidden opportunities for increasing diversity in Tech under a Trump Administration, featuring Lisa Mae Brunson,...

Podcast: Beyond Wearables - Get Ready for Broadcast Hugs and Books that Punch You in the Stomach

A discussion with Miriam Lueck Avery, research director at IFTF for the New Body Language research....

Join us! Howard Rheingold Art Exhibition

Join IFTF and Howard Rheingold in exploring the art that has been the crucible of Howard's thinking and writing for decades. Distinguished fellow,...

It Doesn’t Have to Happen Here: Saving Our Democracy

We can and should take responsibility for shaping the future that we want. Marina Gorbis told this to over one hundred journalists, publishers,...

New Report Sheds Light on Economic, Technological, and Cultural Trends

New Report Sheds Light on Economic, Technological and Cultural Trends Poised to Impact the Dallas-Fort Worth Region Over the Next Decade...

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...