Future Now
The IFTF Blog
The reason you look backward from the future is to develop the perspective necessary to come up with a good plan of action in the present, a way...
Do studies of today's students make a case for braiding together working and learning?
For the past year, building on a long-term partnership, my team in the IFTF EML and The Tech Museum of Innovation team set out to create one of the...
Some recipes are passed down from generation to generation, becoming long-standing traditions. Others such as 'Engaged Eaters' invite us to explore...
Some recipes are passed down from generation to generation, becoming long-standing traditions. Others such as 'Rewritable Narrative' invite us to...
Advances in computing power are largely the work of scientists and engineers ... but it’s often artists that provide us visions of how we might use...
Institute for the Future partnered with The Tech Museum of Innovation to create a first-generation interactive, custom augmented reality (AR)...
Join us for a conversation with Samuel Woolley, IFTF's newest Research Director, who specializes in the study of automation/AI, political...
It was supposed to be a romantic evening. My wife’s business trip to London landed us in one of the nicest hotels of my well-traveled...
Some recipes are passed down from generation to generation, becoming long-standing traditions. Others such as 'Experimental Biodesign' invite us to...
IFTF's Tech Futures Lab to host a hands-on exploration of the future on October 10-12 featuring leading thinkers, researchers, and technologists and...
IFTF had the privilege of inviting one of the “fathers of the internet,” Vint Cerf, to talk about the tough issues around Ethics and AI in a society...
An Anthropologist Explores How Body Area Networks Became Family Area Networks...
Institute for the Future (IFTF) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today released a report outlining 10 areas of innovation that...
An employer work + learn portfolio is a new idea that riffs off of stock portfolios.
We think we are connected today, but the next ten years will be a period of explosive connectivity and asymmetric upheaval. In this future world of...
While the U.S., Europe, and Asia lead in hardware and supercomputing, in Africa’s “high-delta” (or “frontier”) markets, social innovation is what’s...
Some recipes are passed down from generation to generation, becoming long-standing traditions. Others such as 'Cloud Intelligence' invite us to...
The single most important law of futures studies is that there are no facts about the future. Only fictions. Ramez Naam lives by that law, having...
[Reposted from Medium] IFTF Fellows prototype Positive Platforms for tomorrow’s on-demand economy: In less than ten years, according to some...
ToS. RATs. IP. CFAA. ECPA. AML. KYC. HIPAA. The alphabet soup of legalese and regulation surrounding technology is enough to make the most seasoned...
Our identities have always been dynamic. We have to reconcile who we think we are with who we are in the eyes of our families and communities—and in...
Some recipes are passed down from generation to generation, becoming long-standing traditions. Others such as 'Scalable Biodiversity' invite us to...
Telepathy. ESP. Mentalism. Whatever you call it, the ability to communicate thoughts, feelings, or experiences without using our known sensory...