Institute For The Future

IFTF + NDI host Tech+Democracy - RSVP now for Feb 18

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...

Artifact from the Future: Meat Counter

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...

What youth can do now to prepare for the Future of Work

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...

Non-labor Income: it only sounds fantastical

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...

Artifact from the Future: VR Eating

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...

Artifact from the Future: REHIX

This artifact explores how cooperation will break down traditional boundaries, transform the scale of health interventions, and create new...

Artifact from the Future: Healthy Block Project

While the social and environmental determinants of health are becoming targets of upstream investment, focusing vision and resources is still...

The Funky Labor Economics of Uber and Lyft

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...

Four Forecast Perspectives: Remaking Food Experiences

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...

3D Printing a Lawn Game on a Train

How open source design, a 3D printer & Wikipedia enabled us to play the Swedish lawn game, Kubb, on board the Millennial Trains...

The Future of Food in 2015

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...

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...