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Future Cities: Freedom West Homes
Jun 30, 2020
News from the Future #43
Jun 30, 2020
News from the Future #41
Jun 12, 2020
NEW IFTF Foresight Tool: Design Your Practice
May 28, 2020
Future Shock is Here: A Future Now Special Edition
Apr 03, 2020
How to build a more foresightful organization: Dr. Rene Rohrbeck, EDHEC Business School
Mar 31, 2020
The Leadership Trilogy
Mar 18, 2020
Counterfactual Thinking Is the Key to Creativity
Mar 10, 2020
CHAPTER 1: Ramping Up to Full-Spectrum Thinking
Mar 02, 2020
Alumni Insights: You Don’t Need to Be an Expert
Feb 27, 2020
How to Form a Signals Group
Feb 27, 2020
Lessons from the EPIC Conference: Framing a Conversation on How Foresight Can Be Practical and Relevant
Feb 27, 2020
News from the Future #36
Feb 27, 2020
Train Your Brain to Prepare
Feb 10, 2020
Welcome to 2020
Jan 01, 2020
New Realities of Learning
Dec 06, 2019
The future is now.
Nov 05, 2019
Beijing’s Computational Propaganda Goes Global
Sep 12, 2019
Lessons from Laputa
Sep 04, 2019
Exploring Social VR
Aug 09, 2019
Fill in the Blanks
Jun 26, 2019
The Fleet / Car and Rider
Jun 18, 2019
The Caregiver / The Artificial Caregiver
Jun 13, 2019
The Ruse / The Roshki Ruse
Jun 11, 2019
The Pass / I Shouldn't Have Done It
Jun 03, 2019
Scenes From 2027
May 31, 2019
A Wearable MRI Machine
May 30, 2019
Don't Fear The Black Box
May 21, 2019
The topic receives almost daily media coverage—from the incredible potential and dangers of data mining health records to how big data is changing the...
When thinking about the future, it is important to start somewhere. Especially if we believe that the future is something that we, as humans, can...
At IFTF, we’ve been writing for a while now about all the ways that our environments impact our health and well-being. From spaces that nudge us...
This declaration is a collective creation. Written and curated by members of the LGBTQ community across ages, backgrounds, and across the United...
It’s October 13, 2024—ten years since you signed on to the My2024 Declaration. The movement has tackled so many of the big issues in that...
It’s October 10, 2024—the anniversary of the game-changing My2024 event. You can trace so much of what’s good and important in your life back to the...
Check out the buzz from #My2024 and join the conversation at My2024.us, #My2024, and...
IFTF's next-generation Foresight Engine platform aims to build scaled-up conversations about urgent futures. What's new in the updated version? Read...
A couple of years ago, I happened upon one of my favorite descriptions for a world where virtually everything we own is networked: The Internet of the...
Take a quick journey through our 2014 Technology Horizons program's conference, Open Cities: How the Maker Mindset is Reinventing Urban Life. Over two...
IFTF is looking for LGBTQ volunteers to help us inspire and provoke responses for upcoming My2024 online event to imagine our lives as LGBTQ people in...
On September 25-26, Institute for the Future hosted a writing jam to kickstart the Open Source Guide to 21st Century Movements, a resource for anyone...
Help us design the future of work for joy! 2014 Future for Good Fellow Wellington Nogueira is seeding a movement to bring joy into the future of...
Brick-and-mortar retail has been struggling for quite a while. But it has one thing that’s sorely needed in the health world: human...
Institute for the Future and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts are teaming up for the Open City / Art City Festival on October 4 in San Francisco, a...
On September 17–19 IFTF partnered with SJUSD, Cross & Joftus, and Enterprise Development Group, to explore the frontiers of the new learning ecology...
On September 17th, IFTF convened its most recent gathering in our +tech series. Reality +Tech brought guests into direct contact with 4 companies...
Over the next decade, activated networks will leverage new social technologies to disrupt the models used for procuring durable medical equipment,...
The last few years have redefined our understanding of how humans and bacteria interact. We now know that the bacterial cells in our bodies outnumber...
On an intuitive level, we all recognize that art can impact our well-being. But recent research suggests art can be used in medicine in very specific,...
As part of our upcoming 2014 Technology Horizons program conference, we're taking participants on immersions throughout San Francisco for a first-hand...
Join IFTF at our 2014 Technology Horizons conference, Open Cities: How the Maker Mindset is Reinventing Urban Life, October 2-4 in San...
What’s wrong with you? That’s one of the most basic questions that shape clinical encounters, even if it’s rarely asked so bluntly. As the shift...
Massage, reflexology, and other forms of bodywork can do everything from boost immune function to improve asthma symptoms. These treatments have...