Institute For The Future

Real Food Real Stories with Nikiko Masumoto

On September 28, Join Future for Good Fellow Nikiko Masumoto, Real Food Real Stories and IFTF’s Food Futures Lab for an evening of stories about...

Smári McCarthy: A Pirate Who Goes After Corporate Criminal Ships

As co-founder of Iceland's prominent Pirate Party and inventor of Liquid Democracy, McCarthy examines the way technology is opening governance...

Pokémon GO: Context-Aware Gaming is Here!

It may seem that Pokémon GO appeared overnight, but an IFTF forecast report from 2006 shows that this game has been years in the making. Context-aware...

World Future 2016 Summit - Join me in Washington, DC!

At a time when people are fearful, and many dystopian futures lurk ahead, it is up to us to collectively imagine and build the future we want. Humans...

Maker City Playbook Launches

We are happy to announce the release of "From Maker Cities to Open Cities: How the Maker Mindset & Technology are Reinventing Urban Life," Chapter 9...

#FirstWorldProblems

First World Problems are Third World Problems are First World Problems, and Second World Problems too! It’s time to accept something....

The blockchain climate fix

In the heady aspirations of blockchain-biased social entrepreneurs, what could be a better blockchain application for the good of the planet than...

High Delta Markets: The Future of Innovation in Kazakhstan

Kazakh culture provides unique opportunities and challenges to innovation. Some thoughts on the future of Kazakhstan from Diana Tsoy, Kazakh...

IFTF + Philips: Future Health Index Release

The Future Health Index—a report exploring results and implications of an extensive international study exploring how countries are positioned to meet...

June 16: Sold out event featuring Kevin Kelly

Co-founder of Wired magazine, and author of the critically acclaimed book Out of Control, Kevin has helped his readers change the way they think about...

Podcast: Smári McCarthy on Panama Papers, 'pirates,' + power

Panama Papers, 'pirates,' and an argument for how (some) data leaks can make the world a better place, by IFTF Research Fellow Mary Kay Magistad,...

Blockchain in High Delta Markets: Manufacturing Trust in Unstable Environments

[Edited by Alex Goldman] Blockchain and distributed computing have the greatest impact in areas of instability, like the high delta markets of Nigeria...

Jane McGonigal heads to EduTECH 2016

Jane McGonigal, author of games and books like Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter and Director of Game Research and Development at IFTF, is off to...

Douglas Rushkoff joins IFTF as Research Fellow

We're thrilled to announce that media theorist, author, and professor Douglas Rushkoff has joined Institute for the Future as a Research Fellow....

Fred Wilson on the Blockchain

Fred Wilson has an impressive track record when it comes to investing in Internet based businesses. His portfolio includes Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy,...

Game Room: Blockchain Meets Virtual Reality

As we try to grasp the future of blockchain and other distributed computing technologies, we have to start here, with this high-resolution gamescape...

When Everything is Media: The Future of Communications and Technology

IFTF invites Technology Horizons program members to join us for our spring Immersion and research retreat, When Everything is Media: The Future of...

Cellular Agriculture and Future Food Design—Join Us!

Join the IFTF Food Futures Lab at the Berkeley-Stanford Food Innovation and Design Symposium and New Harvest 2016: Cellular Agriculture...

Take the Foresight C.U.R.E.

What if a 3-day training workshop could help you see your career in a whole new light?...

Amazon is Just Walmart on Digital Drugs

In December 2013, a group of protestors in Oakland, California attacked a private Google shuttle bus that was taking Google employees from their Bay...

Smári McCarthy: From the Panama Papers to the Pirate Party

Join Smári McCarthy in conversation with Marina Gorbis on May 13 about his work in breaking the story of the Panama Papers and launching Iceland’s...

What High Delta Markets Tell us About the Platform Economy

Looking at High Delta Markets like West Africa show us that the platform economies are a symptom of volatile markets, not the...

Film Debut—Changing Season: On the Masumoto Family Farm

The story of the future of farming is being written on the Masumoto Family Farm. Tonight, a new film, Changing Season: On the Masumoto Family Farm,...

Understand the Blockchain in Two Minutes

In this short video, Olivia Olson (the voice of Marceline the Vampire Queen in Adventure Time) explains how blockchain technology can be used to...