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The next decade will bring unprecedented numbers of both older people and obese people, each of whom have health and well-being needs that can be...
Mitigating the downstream behavioral and biological effects of trauma will require cooperation between health institutions, communities, and...
Join us this coming Wednesday, February 18, for a unique event here at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, USA. IFTF's Governance...
This post expands on one of four forecast perspectives in Seeds of Disruption: How Technology is Remaking the Future of Food. The research map looks...
The world of work is changing. Parents these days have lots to worry about when it comes to the financial well-being of their children, but it’s not...
Recent sunny labor market reports have generated lots of buzz that the economy is coming back. Unemployment is down to 5.6%, the lowest it’s been...
This post expands on one of four forecast perspectives in our Seeds of Disruption: How Technology is Remaking the Future of Food research. It explores...
This artifact explores how cooperation will break down traditional boundaries, transform the scale of health interventions, and create new...
While the social and environmental determinants of health are becoming targets of upstream investment, focusing vision and resources is still...
We as a society are used to the dichotomy of employed vs unemployed. Sure, some jobs are part-time, some are full; some offer health insurance or...
In our 2013 research, IFTF's Food Futures research program explored how people will interact with an emerging set of technologies to demand new kinds...
How open source design, a 3D printer & Wikipedia enabled us to play the Swedish lawn game, Kubb, on board the Millennial Trains...
As our country reflected on the State of the Union last night, Edible Startups’ Austin Kiessig released his own thoughts on the state of our food...
This artifact from the future explores how technological innovations that monitor emotional states will create new tools to help providers and...
IFTF and The Rockefeller Foundation announce the release of the Future of Youth Employment report. The report offers an in-depth look at the changing...
Over the next decade, the objects and environments that we interact with everyday are going to “wake up.” Once inanimate things will have new...
In recent years, we’ve seen the emergence of a variety of direct-to-consumer genetic testing services. As biometric data—genetic, metabolic, and...
Today Knight announced the 126 finalists selected for the inaugural Knight Cities Challenge, and I'm thrilled to report that 2 ideas from IFTF made...
Hivos recently published Social Innovation in Practice, a collection of stories about what social innovation looks from the voices of activists and...
As we move into an era of abundant data, we will see a proliferation of creative ways to identify the hidden, and often surprising, metrics that...
In recent years, traditional health care players have begun expanding their reach outside of health care settings and into our homes and workplaces,...
Reciprocity is a basic human instinct. Advantage is a requirement for success in any endeavor. Bringing these two together to create a Reciprocity...
As we turn to the New Year, IFTF Executive Director, Marina Gorbis, reflects on the most memorable moments in her work. We hope that our work inspires...
Apply today for a new master’s degree in Italy centered on food, technology, and innovation and built on Institute for the Future's Seeds of...