Institute For The Future

Government Service of the Future? Visions from Dubai

IFTF conducted the research for the UAE's Museum of Future Government Services, an experiment in design fiction that explores the future of health,...

Future of Learning: From Assigning to Enticing with Content

Finally, disruption has come to education. Many would agree it’s been too long in coming. Now, the same forces that have disrupted every other sector...

Overheard at Burning Man

What happens when you use the Social Inventor's Toolkit to investigate Burning Man?

Artifact from the Future: Species Design Symposium

The NovoGenesis Institute offers a million-dollar award for a new predator targeting exploding populations of cephalopods, primarily squid and...

A free ride for public health?

There is a need to design systems that bring awareness to the health implications of everyday actions. This provides a critical feedback loop that...

IFTF at Creating Change 2014

What could the next 4, 6, even 10 years mean for your life, your work, your organization, or the LGBT movement? How many futures—plural!—are you ready...

Our Favorite ideas from over the weekend on Maker Cities!

Maker Cities, our massively multiplayer game for prototyping the future of cities, has been live for almost a week! The game’s first challenge, called...

Personalized Medicine and Lifestyle

Health Horizons was a media partner for the 2014 Personalized Medicine World Conference, January 27-28. We spoke with Dr. Jeffery Bland before the...

Artifact from the Future: Give Some Spit, Get a Free Ride

You’re immune to impulse buys at check-out, but this one is different—a local ‘stress map’ of San Francisco built from epigenetic...

Open Medicine and the Future of Patient Engagement

Health Horizons was a media partner for the 2014 Personalized Medicine World Conference, January 27-28. We spoke with Dr. Kogelnik before the...

4 capabilities of a SynchroniCity

You can think of a SynchroniCity as the ultimate Maker Cities, with rapid fabrication, on-demand delivery, a micro-economy of location-based gigs, and...

Our favorite ideas from day 1 of Maker Cities: SynchroniCity!

We’re thrilled so many players joined for the launch Maker Cities yesterday and the first weekly challenge, called SynchroniCity. The game is off to a...

Artifact from the Future: The Cost Of Water

What if we just can’t break our water habit in California? What if climate change cuts down the Sierra snowpack by end of century?...

A Future of Personalized Depression Treatment

Health Horizons researchers will be attending the 2014 Personalized Medicine World Conference here in Silicon Valley, January 27-28. In the run-up to...

Welcome to the SynchroniCity

IFTF's Maker Cities online game officially launches with the first challenge, SynchroniCity. Play the game. Remake the world in the SynchroniCity....

Makers Will Create the Future of Cities

Yesterday, I came across Makers Create the Future, Mark Kleszczewski's article about the emerging maker movement on Business Xpansion Journal. His...

Artifact from the Future: Keep Calm & Capture Carbon

Thanks to air-scrubbing trees and other carbon capture tech, Planet Earth is on track to hit carbon emission...

Artifact from the Future: Feral Zones

Some places just aren’t safe to drive—and your insurance company knows it. What’s more, it can warn you as you enter feral zones where it simply won’t...

Socialstructing empathy and human experience

IFTF is a proud presenting sponsor of the Global Lives Project's newest series, Lives in Transit, which documents a day in the life of 10 transit...

Download and Play 'Sneaky Cards'

In 2009, we partnered with Boing Boing and Sun Microsystems to hold Digital Open, an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world....

Artifact from the Future: FuturU

As we step into the new year, many of us will be making resolutions that reflect our hopes and aspirations. It can be challenging to imagine how much...

Artifact from the Future: Mindwriter

More and more platforms claiming copyright ownership for any thoughts you share via mindshare...

Reaching for the Stars with Jose M. Hernandez

Serendipity seems to be a way of life at the Institute for the Future. On a flight back from visiting one of IFTF's Future for Good Fellows in Mexico...

Artifact from the Future: Global Health Heroes

Health Heroes translate technology breakthroughs into new capabilities and new professions, and pioneer new models of clinical...