Institute For The Future

Artifact from the Future: "Day Maker" App

This artifact from the future explores how technological innovations that monitor emotional states will create new tools to help providers and...

IFTF & Rockefeller Foundation Release: Future of Youth Employment Report!

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...

Living in a Health Aware World

Over the next decade, the objects and environments that we interact with everyday are going to “wake up.” Once inanimate things will have new...

Artifact from the Future: Indulgence Navigator

In recent years, we’ve seen the emergence of a variety of direct-to-consumer genetic testing services. As biometric data—genetic, metabolic, and...

2 IFTF Ideas Finalists in Knight Cities Challenge

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...

Open Source Government? Social Innovation in Practice

Hivos recently published Social Innovation in Practice, a collection of stories about what social innovation looks from the voices of activists and...

Artifact from the Future: Patient Sense

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...

Four Forecast Perspectives on Reworking Health

In recent years, traditional health care players have begun expanding their reach outside of health care settings and into our homes and workplaces,...

Please join me in supporting a Future for Good

Reciprocity is a basic human instinct. Advantage is a requirement for success in any endeavor. Bringing these two together to create a Reciprocity...

Shaping the Future: IFTF’s Year in Review #Give2Future

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...

IFTF Joins Food Innovation Graduate Program in Italy: Apply Today!

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...

Please join me and create a Future for Good

When I envision a future for good, I see a world in which science has been made accessible to all. This is the future that I have been exploring as...

A Couple Highlights From Our Foresight Practitioner’s Workshop

One of my favorite things from last week’s Foresight Practitioner Training was the combination of discussions around understanding methodological...

Mapping the Age of Networked Matter

Not 25 years ago, access to the Internet was confined to government research labs and universities. Today, the smartphone in my pocket not only...

Will automation lead to fewer jobs in 10 years? Short answer, yes.

Automation is an elephant. It’s been marching forward at a steady pace for two hundred years, give or take. For the vast majority of these...

Giving Back by Giving to the Future | #Give2Future

As we all spend #GivingTuesday thinking about giving back, IFTF invites you to think about giving to the future. See our new map, The Future of...

Follow Highlights from our Foresight Practitioner Workshop

Today – and for the next couple of days – we'll share highlights from our inaugural Foresight Practitioners workshop. Follow...

TEDxMarin Talks From IFTF: Our Germs, Bodies, and Brains

In September, IFTF Research Director Miriam Lueck Avery and Distinguished Fellow Jamias Cascio shared their thoughts on the future of our germs,...

Health Care in a Post-ACA World: Navigating the Second Curve

We are at a pivotal moment for health care in the U.S. We can resist change, and work to keep the status quo in place. We can muddle along and...

The Foresight Advantage: Sudan 2030

Earlier this year IFTF started a new partnership with United Nations Development Program’s Sudan office. Together we are embarking on a long-term...

Games aid preparation for the zombie apocalypse

Kids everywhere have a new excuse for playing games instead of doing their homework—it turns out the right games could improve their likelihood of...

3 New Invaluable Work Skills for 2018

As the nature of work is changing, so too are the skills required to succeed in the workforce. This blog post examines 3 new critical skills for...

From #20forecasts: The microbiome mediates the war on germs

Since James Watson and Francis Crick first described the structure of DNA in 1953, the double-helix has provided a blueprint for creating and...

Health Aware World: Health Horizons Fall Conference

On November 12 and 13 the Health Horizons team will convene an incredible group of experts, entrepreneurs, and healthcare innovators to explore life...