Institute For The Future

My Transcontinental Journey to Explore our Food System

What can 10 days on a train teach us about our future food system? Sarah Smith shares what she learned about managing waste, sourcing locally, and...

Reworking Health: Translating Siloed Research into Medicine

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...

Artifact Engine

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...

Reworking Health: Personalizing Space for Mindfulness

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...

The #My2024 Declaration

This declaration is a collective creation. Written and curated by members of the LGBTQ community across ages, backgrounds, and across the United...

#My2024 Bonus Mission—Rally! October 13, 2024

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...

#My2024 Bonus Mission—Celebrations! Oct 9-10, 2024

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...

The Latest Buzz from #My2024

Check out the buzz from #My2024 and join the conversation at My2024.us, #My2024, and...

IFTF's New Foresight Engine Debuts: Collaboratively Forecast the Future!

IFTF's next-generation Foresight Engine platform aims to build scaled-up conversations about urgent futures. What's new in the updated version? Read...

Reworking Health: Embedding Care Protocol Adherence

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...

Highlights from our Open Cities Conference #opencities2025

Take a quick journey through our 2014 Technology Horizons program's conference, Open Cities: How the Maker Mindset is Reinventing Urban Life. Over two...

Join the #My2024 Inspiration Team to Imagine LGBTQ Futures!

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...

Announcing an Open Source Guide to 21st Century Movements

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...

Bringing Joy into the Future of Work

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...

Reworking Health: Contextualizing Science in Retail Settings

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...

Announcing Open City / Art City Featured Artists

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...

IFTF Hosts Future of Learning Workshop with SJUSD

On September 17–19 IFTF partnered with SJUSD, Cross & Joftus, and Enterprise Development Group, to explore the frontiers of the new learning ecology...

IFTF explores the forefront of Augmented and Virtual Reality

On September 17th, IFTF convened its most recent gathering in our +tech series. Reality +Tech brought guests into direct contact with 4 companies...

Reworking Health: Activating Community Health Libraries

Over the next decade, activated networks will leverage new social technologies to disrupt the models used for procuring durable medical equipment,...

From #10YF2014: Global Microbiome Map

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...

Reworking Health: Automating Media Therapy

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,...

Open City Immersions: See How Makers are Reinventing Urban Systems

As part of our upcoming 2014 Technology Horizons program conference, we're taking participants on immersions throughout San Francisco for a first-hand...

Imagine the Future of Cities at our Open Cities Conference + Festival

Join IFTF at our 2014 Technology Horizons conference, Open Cities: How the Maker Mindset is Reinventing Urban Life, October 2-4 in San...

Reworking Health: Amplifying the Positive

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...