Institute For The Future

My take on the future

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Help IFTF #futurify SXSWedu!

Institute for the Future and ACT Foundation are teaming up and we need your vote TODAY on PanelPicker for Future Work Skills + Towards a National...

Café Hyène: A Speculative Dining Experience in 2025

Welcome to Café Hyène, a speculative dining experience that debuted at IFTF's 2015 Ten-Year Forecast retreat. What happens when food waste, the...

The Purple Transformation: A Human+Machine Futures Scenario

The year is 2025. Those weird headsets you saw your favorite pro basketball team wear ... [This is the final scenario in a series of four about...

News from the Future: Aug 2015 Newsletter

As we grapple with the future of an on-demand global workforce, all of us need to engage in envisioning positive platforms that ensure a workable...

IFTF Mentor Minds: USA Pavilion Series on Innovation

IFTF's network of practical visionaries and futures thinkers is shaping the global conversation about food innovation with the USA Pavilion at Expo...

From #10YF2015: The Microbial Future

IFTF's Food Futures Lab investigated how breakthroughs in microbiology might transform the future of health, food, and even retail for the 2015...