Institute For The Future

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...

Reworking Health: Commoditizing Bodywork

Massage, reflexology, and other forms of bodywork can do everything from boost immune function to improve asthma symptoms. These treatments have...

From #10YF2014: Global Simulation Corps

Simulations are models of reality that help people prepare for possible futures, and the most ambitious of these attempt to model large complex...

Reworking Health: Calibrating Pain

The doctor’s office pain chart has long been a source of frustration for distressed people trying to quantify a subjective experience. What if...

Open City/Art City Festival RFP - We Need You!

Calling all artists, critical and speculative designers—we need you to imagine the future of cities! Bring your visions and provocations to life at...

Reworking Health: Coordinating Caring Communities

The CDC’s Adverse Childhood Experience Study connects chronic stress caused by early adversity and later-life health, and could radically change what...

From #20forecasts: Risks of an algorithm arms race

An algorithm arms race risks a Sorcerer's Apprentice scenario ... As prediction algorithms are deployed to detect geopolitical and financial...

Forecast the Future of Food with IFTF

IFTF is expanding and extending our research to broader groups of food system hackers, activists, thinkers, innovators, and eaters—including you....

Reworking Health: Uncovering Empowering Identities

Over several decades, social epidemiologists have done amazing research on how our health is shaped by social and environmental factors totally...

From #10YF2014: The National Sharing Economy

Over the past decade, collaboration and sharing have emerged as powerful core strategies to unlock the value of underused goods and services in...

Learning from Extreme Learners: What's next?

Around a year ago at IFTF we began researching a concept we call extreme learning. We have extreme athletes, right? Why not extreme learners? Extreme...

Reworking Health: Optimizing the Care Effect

In our 2013 Health Horizons research, Reworking Health, we examined four emerging sources of authority—computation, narratives, networks, and...

Catalyzing Technology to Support Family Caregiving

A new report co-sponsored by IFTF identifies steps to better support family caregiving through the use of mobile, online, and in-home technologies....

From #10YF2014: Co-Present Microwork

Face-to-face has long been the gold standard for human interaction, against which other media, from video conferencing to text chats, have been...

From #20Forecasts: The New Space Race Yields Innovation on Earth

With efforts under way to commercialize spaceflight, governmental organizations will become customers of entrepreneurial ventures around medicine,...