Institute For The Future

Podcast: Propaganda Primer for Post-War on Terror America

Propaganda, American Style: A Khrushchev's Perspective on the aftermath of 9/11.

Join IFTF for Co-Creating the Future of Our City: Cultural Prosperity in Oakland

Cities are where we face the future first. How will we shape the #FutureOfOurCity? Join us Sept 27 at 6:30PM in Oakland for Co-Creating the Future of...

Food Futures Lab Hosts Expert Workshop

Recently the Food Futures Lab convened a diverse group of experts to participate in a half-day workshop to explore the future of human-food...

Podcast: Fab Labs, Fab Cities, & India becoming an Internet of Things hub

Aiming to help everyone make almost anything, Fab Labs have opened around the world, and Fab Cities are taking the movement...

IFTF at New Harvest 2016: Beef, Pork, and Chicken from Cell Culture

In July, IFTF joined leading global experts in tissue engineering to discuss the future of cultured beef, pork, and chicken, and the impact on the...

Imagine the Future of Lagos

IFTF is partnering with Imisi 3D, a virtual reality creation lab, to host a public workshop on the future of Lagos on August...

From Apples to Apples to Oranges: Tech Disruption in Traditional Industries

Recently, Unilever acquired Dollar Shave Club, a direct-to-consumer men’s hygiene company, for $1 Billion. This might seem like another day, another...

China: One of the World's Great Maker Countries

IFTF Research Fellow Mary Kay Magistad released the latest installment of her Whose Century Is It podcast series on August 11. The episode delves into...

Jane McGonigal at Aspen Ideas Festival 2016

Thinking about the far-off future isn’t just an exercise in intellectual curiosity. It’s a practical skill that, as new research reveals, has a direct...

News from the Future: Aug 2016 Newsletter

Marina Gorbis: Envisioning and making the future must be a massively public endeavor. IFTF is motivated by the belief that everyone needs to be part...

Future of Food Experiences at the Masumoto Family Farm

Nikiko Masumoto, organic farmer and agrarian artist, is an IFTF 2016 Future for Good Fellow. Together with Nikiko, we at IFTF are envisioning the role...

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...