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Suppose you manage a sales team. Of course you don't want them coming across as angry or anxious or pushy. Now suppose, instead, that you could screen...
Here in Silicon Valley, the lore—and allure—of the garage model for innovation is strong. I've heard it said, "It has been successful for IT and...
He's at it again. Kary Mullis, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), is on a quest. He...
Developing the International Ocean Station August 12 at 11:00 am Pacific TimeJoin Jerry Michalski in conversation with Cesar Harada to discuss...
Over the last couple of years, we've been interested in the idea that health spreads—for better or worse—through our social networks, and the...
This past month Jake Dunagan and I started a series of posts over on GOOD magazine's website. The posts focus on both explaining what Futures thinking...
Say you have arthritis, as 80 million Americans do. Your hip has degenerated to the point that you have trouble walking, or standing for too long, or...
A new noise/ozone sensor watch being tested in Europe.
One of the more startling statistics I learned last year came from something by geneticist and science writer Misha Angrist: At least as of a couple...
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When was the last time you looked into the refrigerator or at a store shelf with every intention of grabbing a healthy snack--only to wind up with...
Mathias Crawford and I have begun a series on "Futures Thinking" over at GOOD. My first post went up this week--on the need for re-designing our...
The New Scientist has a great round-up of the various efforts geneticists are undertaking to modify farm animals. The story doesn't break any new...
If you imagine a healthy future, what does it look like? What will we have done to our bodies, networks, and environments to improve our collective...
Keeping with Institute for the Future's commitment to share our research with public, throughout 2010 this blog has explored our forecasts and impacts...
A few months ago, I highlighted a treadmill at Japanese gyms that flashes pictures of desserts at exercisers as they hit certain calorie counts in...
Lightweight innovation processes are emerging on the web, aided by new ideas about how to organize innovation and technologies that reduce the cost...
What if there was a simple spit test you could do that would predict how long you are likely to live? Would you want to know?Having this kind of test...
Via PSFK, I came across three concept designs for wallets from MIT's Media Lab that would offer real-time feedback on our spending habits. For...
This is the first time I've seen someone happily exclaim, "I'm curing cancer in my garage!"
I was presenting some of the forecasts from our recently released HC2020 map last week when I saw a detail in one the map that I had never seen...
A recent survey about performance-enhancing drugs and poker has gotten some press for the not-terribly-shocking finding that approximately 80 percent...
In 2007, the Institute for the Future forecast on lightweight infrastructure introduced a set of characteristics common in the design of emerging...
I learned with great sadness about the loss of William Mitchell, 65, this past friday after a long battle with cancer. Bill was the chair of my Ph.D....