IFTF: Future Now

IFTF's Food Futures Lab Seeks Director

Feb 16, 2016 By Rebecca Chesney

IFTF is seeking a Director for our Food Futures Lab to help lead research and foresight for food and food systems, develop a multi-year vision for the...

Join Us Feb 10: Emerging Environmental Challenges in China’s Future

Jan 29, 2016 By Lyn Jeffery

Can we imagine new actions to turn the tide for China's environmental future? Join the Center for Emerging Worlds, Institute for the Future, and Asia...

Art, Science, and Climate Adventures in Asia

Jan 04, 2016 By Catherine Sarah Young

IFTF's Artist in Residence Catherine Sarah Young shares an update from her inspiring work using art to catalyze conversations about climate change...

My take on the future

Dec 17, 2015 By Milton Chen

I'm Milton Chen, and I've had a long career opening the doors of learning to children through programs and platforms like Sesame Street from Sesame...

New Release! 10 Strategies for a Workable Future

Dec 09, 2015 By Jean Hagan

An urgent public dialogue is unfolding about the state of the US workforce and its prospects for the next decade as a result of changing labor...

Designing a New Operating System for Work

Dec 09, 2015 By Marina Gorbis

[Reposted from Medium] The battles between Uber and taxi companies and the 1099 vs. W-2 debateare just the first signs of the upheaval emerging with...

Make a #Future4Good

Dec 08, 2015 By Jane McGonigal

Happy holidays! I’m Jane McGonigal. You may know me as the author of games and books like Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter. You may not know that I’m...

The Race to Build the Machine

Nov 12, 2015 By Devin Fidler

While Uber, Airbnb and the other players in the “sharing economy” have captured public attention, the technologies underlying them continue to evolve...

Portable Benefits: A Cornerstone of a Workable Future

Nov 09, 2015 By Jean Hagan

During IFTF’s Workable Futures Initiative convening in October, titled Positive Platforms for a Workable Future, we identified several urgent issues...

Open Cities debuts at YBCA on Nov 7

Nov 05, 2015 By Ben Hamamoto

Over the last several years, IFTF's Technology Horizons Program has explored our urban futures with the help of leading thinkers, artists, activists...

Mapping the Restorative Justice City

Nov 04, 2015 By Tessa Finlev

Prisons and the criminal economy offer the same purpose: they absorb marginalized people who are systematically left out of the mainstream and the...

Join IFTF at Real Future Fair

Oct 30, 2015 By Sarah Smith

Join IFTF's Food Futures Lab researcher, Sarah Smith, at the Real Future Fair Nov 6-7 in San Francisco....

Podcast: Marina Gorbis Speaks with Public Radio International

Oct 23, 2015 By Rebecca Chesney

When looking to the future, how do we separate the signals from the noise? Public Radio International's Mary Kay Magistad speaks with Marina Gorbis...

When Everything is Media: The Future of Communication and Technology

Oct 23, 2015 By Bradley Kreit

In 2016, IFTF's Technology Horizons program will embark on a year-long exploration of the reinvention of communication to map the rapidly changing...

Our Futures under Climate Change

Oct 19, 2015 By Catherine Sarah Young

The Apocalypse Project: House of Futures has finally launched at the Future Gallery of IFTF. Free and open to the public, the 7-month exhibition...

Join IFTF at the RAND Behavioral Finance Forum | October 21

Oct 14, 2015 By Rebecca Chesney

IFTF joins Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller and Maya Shankar, Senior White House Advisor, for Behavioral Finance Conference in Washington,...

Eatsa & The Future of Food Automation

Oct 07, 2015 By Sarah Smith

As part of the 2015 research on Epicenters of Food Innovation, IFTF's Food Futures Lab went to try the newly opened San Francisco restaurant, Eatsa, a...

News from the Future: Oct 2015 Newsletter

Oct 07, 2015 By Rebecca Chesney

This week our Workable Futures Initiative hosted leading-edge thinkers from policy, platforms, social innovation, worker advocacy, philanthropy,...

Oct 5-6 Convening: Positive Platforms for a Workable Future

Oct 01, 2015 By Jean Hagan

Technology is fundamentally reshaping the way we work, the way we think about jobs and labor, and, the way we organize to get things done in everyday...

Meeting My Brain

Sep 24, 2015 By Sarah Smith

It’s 7pm on a Friday in August. I’m waiting with nervous anticipation to receive a really interesting introduction. I’m about to meet my own brain,...

Join us on October 21-22 for the New Body Language

Sep 15, 2015 By Bradley Kreit

On October 21-22, IFTF’s Technology Horizons Program will host its fall conference: The New Body Language: the Future of Wearables, Wireless, and Body...