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Future Cities: Freedom West Homes
Jun 30, 2020
News from the Future #43
Jun 30, 2020
News from the Future #41
Jun 12, 2020
NEW IFTF Foresight Tool: Design Your Practice
May 28, 2020
Future Shock is Here: A Future Now Special Edition
Apr 03, 2020
How to build a more foresightful organization: Dr. Rene Rohrbeck, EDHEC Business School
Mar 31, 2020
The Leadership Trilogy
Mar 18, 2020
Counterfactual Thinking Is the Key to Creativity
Mar 10, 2020
CHAPTER 1: Ramping Up to Full-Spectrum Thinking
Mar 02, 2020
Alumni Insights: You Don’t Need to Be an Expert
Feb 27, 2020
How to Form a Signals Group
Feb 27, 2020
Lessons from the EPIC Conference: Framing a Conversation on How Foresight Can Be Practical and Relevant
Feb 27, 2020
News from the Future #36
Feb 27, 2020
Train Your Brain to Prepare
Feb 10, 2020
Welcome to 2020
Jan 01, 2020
New Realities of Learning
Dec 06, 2019
The future is now.
Nov 05, 2019
Beijing’s Computational Propaganda Goes Global
Sep 12, 2019
Lessons from Laputa
Sep 04, 2019
Exploring Social VR
Aug 09, 2019
Fill in the Blanks
Jun 26, 2019
The Fleet / Car and Rider
Jun 18, 2019
The Caregiver / The Artificial Caregiver
Jun 13, 2019
The Ruse / The Roshki Ruse
Jun 11, 2019
The Pass / I Shouldn't Have Done It
Jun 03, 2019
Scenes From 2027
May 31, 2019
A Wearable MRI Machine
May 30, 2019
Don't Fear The Black Box
May 21, 2019
Imagine taking a video stream of someone—Vladimir Putin, for example, or Lady Gaga, or your spouse—and changing what they say onscreen to whatever you...
These foresight materials were created to quickly get you up to speed on this powerful new technology, to help you understand how blockchains are...
How do you build something you won’t regret? It’s a question that deserves its fair share of thought, especially in Silicon Valley where countless...
How do we illustrate the systems of equity as clearly as we describe systems of inequity? How can we describe what it feels like to walk around in an...
“What if” is a common question in every organization, because it’s the first step in optimizing existing processes or developing new ones. There are...
Learn about the #EquitableFutures Nodes at Culture Bank, Cal State University East Bay, and ExT in...
Nodes continue to commit to envisioning a more equitable future for 2030.
Science fiction author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke famously said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”...
Meet our first Equitable Futures Nodes, learn how they envision a more equitable future in 2030, and follow their stories on social...
The age of the intelligent agent is upon us, but the true consequences of their emergence remain largely unexplored. Is Siri just another genre of...
The idea of technology as morally neutral is pervasive. We are told that it is only the use of a technology that makes it good or bad. But, technology...
Thuc Vu, CEO and Co-founder of the Silicon Valley startup OhmniLabs, says his favorite thing to do with a telepresence robot is to cook with his...
IFTF’s Executive Director Marina Gorbis spent years exploring and making sense of how technology will transform work and organizations. In her 2013...
I’ve been practicing strategic foresight for nearly a year now. I joined IFTF in early 2018, supporting Distinguished Fellow Bob Johansen. Bob taught...
People don’t want products or services. They want their desires fulfilled. People will increasingly outsource this important job to software happiness...
In 1990, Steve Jobs famously promoted the computer as “the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” In some ways, that’s how computers are still...
In a video created by the Automatic Coordination of Teams Lab at the University of Southern California, a set of 49 drones line the floor of an empty...
A Framework from MapLight and Institute for the Future to Safeguard U.S. Elections
On January 17, 2014, Girl 4 Trump USA joined Twitter. She was silent for a week, but on January 24, she suddenly got busy, posting an average of 1,289...
Navigating levels of autonomy: Over the next decade, autonomous bots and machines will migrate out of a few select industries and terrains and become...
Standing on the desert surface of Tatooine, you instinctively duck as the Millennium Falcon swoops in for a thunderous and dramatic landing beside...
In an interview not long ago, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was asked if he had ever heard of “Black Twitter.” Stone admitted he had not, but wondered...
How is it that termites are able to build towering cathedrals out of mud without referring to a set of blueprints? How do ants, without a leader...