Institute For The Future

We developed five video scenarios to illustrate our forecast of how biocitizens might use new media technologies in the next decade. All are in .mov...

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In May 2008, the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council (CCRRC) publicly released the results of a year-long research endeavor by the Institute for the...

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We often think, talk, and write about social networking and public spaces online. But it's easy to forget an important part of the modern-day...

At our Make the Future! booth at Maker Faire in May, we asked Fairegoers who swung by our booth to record 30 second of their future forecasts. We got...

Jason Tester, Chris Sumner, Chris Noessel, and Mike Love's modified newsstand showing headlines from the future won an Editor's Choice blue ribbon at...

Thanks to everyone who came by our booth to draw a vision of the future, record a video about the future, or just chat with us about who we are and...

Two things we are beginning to talk about regularly at IFTF are open source and free media. Songbird, a media player in development by San Francisco's...

The Biocitizens and New Media Technology conference explored the convergence of trends around new media, health, and biocitizenship. After the...

Back in the heady days of the mid 1990s, when we were first starting to understand the linkages between the online world of the Web and the offline...

As a part of the Future of Making research task—which will culminate in a conference in San Mateo, CA May 4—5, 2008—David Pescovitz and Marina Gorbis...

Marina Gorbis guest blogs for BoingBoing.net: Kids on Bluegrass

In today's BoingBoing guest blog, Marina discusses bluegrass festivals, and the young and old musicians who gather, teach, learn, and play at them....

Trust Me. We Need a Gullibility Index

In a recently posted article at the Social Science Research Network, University of Minnesota Mathematics Professor Andrew Odlyzko adds to the growing...

How Simplicity Can Improve Well-Being

My life has been shaped by stories of people who have transformed their lifestyles to embrace simplicity. They dare to do radically less and have...

Ladies, get the mobile health app designed just for you! It's pink!

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To your health (data)—may it someday be integrated!

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5 Links For A Longer, Healthier Life

Daily supplements? Check. Walking 3 miles a day? Check. Aversion to physical risk? Definitely. Signing up for cryonics? In process.Yes, I think it's...

What if you could make the invisible visible?

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Give Me a McStatin with Cheese

In what really is not a joke (though is likely a provocation), a group of British physicians published an article in the American Journal of...

69 Design Ideas For Our Future Health

.Design ideas are pouring in. People from over 15 countries around the world have entered BodyShock. Themes range from novel visualizations and...