Institute For The Future

Seeds of Disruption: How Technology is Remaking the Future of Food

In 2013, IFTF’s Global Food Outlook program undertook a yearlong exploration into the ways that emerging technologies and sciences are reshaping the...

IFTF Congratulates GOOD 100's Nic Weidinger

Earlier this year, GOOD Magazine honored IFTF Researcher and Designer Nic Weidinger in the 2014 GOOD 100, a list of 100 people who embody what it...

New Paths out of Poverty | 25 Future Zones of Innovation

In 2010 we started a journey to uncover new paths out of poverty. We analyzed 18,000 ideas from Catalysts for Change, a global participatory game on...

City Making / City Hacking at MacroCity

IFTF is proud to have co-sponsored the MacroCity Conference, a two-day event developed by 2014 IFTF Fellow Tim Hwang with his Bay Area Infrastructure...

Future of Art #MakerCities Hackathon!

On Saturday, May 24th, IFTF #MakerCities finished up a mini-hackathon in collaboration with the NYC Museum Media Lab Meetup Group, and demoed and...

Governance Futures Lab heads to Personal Democracy Forum 2014

How can we redesign the structures around us to better represent our values? This question has become even more relevant in light of the events of the...

Hack the Story: Edit Your City

The city of Redding, California needs a new narrative. In a March 2014 Gallup survey about community well-being, Redding ranked 187th out of 189...

Living Longer, Aging Well: #AgingForward

On June 5 and 6, we host our annual client-only Health Horizons conference, where we’ll dive deep into the shifts in society and technology that are...

The Millennial Trains Project: Applications Open

Last August the Institute for the Future sent me on the Millennial Trains Project - an experimental educational journey sponsored by National...

From #10YF2014: 3D-Printed Cities

During the 2014 Ten-Year Forecast Annual Retreat, Jamais Cascio explored the potential of 3D printing to change the way we rebuild, restore, and...

As Fitbits for Feelings Emerge, Whither Empathy?

Are we losing touch with one another? Are we sinking towards something like Roman civilization, when bloodthirsty spectators eagerly watched men fight...

Maker Cities NYC Immersion Storify now available

On May 20-21, our Maker Cities team led a group of research sponsors on a discovery journey into the maker culture of New York. Now you can share the...

#MakerCities and NYC Museum Media Labs: Day 1!

Alex from the Maker Cities team at Day 1 of our hackathon with NYC Museum Media Lab Meetup Group.

From #10YF2014: The End of Prisons

The 2014 Ten-Year Forecast explored the landscape of change over the next decade by inviting attendees to contemplate ten projects that—if...

Maker Cities and NYC Museum Media Labs

If we set aside the traditional view of art museums as places to store and view art, what new roles open up for these institutions in cities where...

Myanmar Futures Exchange 2014

It's become a truism of our age that the world is changing at an accelerating pace, and uncertainty is great. I recently returned from a place where...

How Block by Block Creativity can Mute the Effects of Inequality

As politicians grapple with the corrosive effects of gross economic inequality on a long-term macro scale, what kinds of things can be effective on a...

IFTF Gallery for the Future hosts first popup exhibit

The IFTF Gallery for the Future presents our inaugural exhibit, a collection of video works by the Global Lives Project, produced from 2004 to 2014....

Announcing IFTF's 2014 Fellows

The unknown, urgent future calls for practical visionaries who ask provocative questions and seek actionable, impactful answers. The IFTF Future for...

10YF2014: Recoloring the World

On May 1-2, the 2014 Ten-Year Forecast Annual Retreat explores the landscape of change over this next decade by inviting attendees to contemplate ten...

Maker Cities in Transition

On April 16, IFTF's Maker Cities partnered with the Global Lives Project to host a panel and knowledge sharing event in San...

#IFTFWork: Automated fast food and swarming?

IFTF has been looking at the future of work for many years. We know that work is breaking apart and being reassembled in a different way today than...

Maker Cities at Burning Man Global Leadership Conference

On Sunday, April 6th, Alex Goldman and Rebecca Chesney spoke at the Burning Man Global Leadership Conference in San Francisco. See what ideas they...

Maker City Shenzhen: Global Hub for Makers and Manufacturers

Leading up to our Maker Cities immersion in Shenzhen's maker culture, here are four of our China + makers research pieces from the last three years....