Future Now
The IFTF Blog
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...
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...
As co-founder of Iceland's prominent Pirate Party and inventor of Liquid Democracy, McCarthy examines the way technology is opening governance...
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...
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...
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...
First World Problems are Third World Problems are First World Problems, and Second World Problems too! It’s time to accept something....
In the heady aspirations of blockchain-biased social entrepreneurs, what could be a better blockchain application for the good of the planet than...
Kazakh culture provides unique opportunities and challenges to innovation. Some thoughts on the future of Kazakhstan from Diana Tsoy, Kazakh...
The Future Health Index—a report exploring results and implications of an extensive international study exploring how countries are positioned to meet...
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...
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,...
[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, author of games and books like Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter and Director of Game Research and Development at IFTF, is off to...
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 has an impressive track record when it comes to investing in Internet based businesses. His portfolio includes Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy,...
As we try to grasp the future of blockchain and other distributed computing technologies, we have to start here, with this high-resolution gamescape...
IFTF invites Technology Horizons program members to join us for our spring Immersion and research retreat, When Everything is Media: The Future of...
Join the IFTF Food Futures Lab at the Berkeley-Stanford Food Innovation and Design Symposium and New Harvest 2016: Cellular Agriculture...
What if a 3-day training workshop could help you see your career in a whole new light?...
In December 2013, a group of protestors in Oakland, California attacked a private Google shuttle bus that was taking Google employees from their Bay...
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...
Looking at High Delta Markets like West Africa show us that the platform economies are a symptom of volatile markets, not the...
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,...