Institute For The Future

From Self-Experiments to Life-Doulas in 300 words

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ShopKeep Upends Retail IT With Cloud Services

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Making Health Take Less Work

Is that bagel a good choice given your genetic makeup?

Sustain Saskatchewan

"Trees make the prairies tolerable." 

Innovating the Process of Innovation

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Free will and choosing your own adventure

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Humanities Gaming Institute: A Model for Lightweight Innovation in Highly Traditional Organizations?

IFTF colleague Sean Ness recently drew my attention to an interesting lightweight innovation event being held this summer at the University of South...

From torture to persuasion

Not only are torture techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and forced stress positions evil, they don't work very well for interrogation....

People still want to dream: Stephen Duncombe, Pt. 3

Our third and final installment of the Stepen Duncombe interview begins with the way those on the Left and Right (with all caveats about...

Quantifying well-being for measuring progress

As a statistician who taught international development in grad school, I am really interested in looking at different measures of economic development...

Where is My Caffeinated Yogurt?

I'm not sure what it says about my eating habits that this weekend, my Mom took it upon herself to give me a caffeinated cookie from a local bakery....

What if your scale told you what to eat, not how much you weigh?

The other day, my colleague, Jason Tester, blogged about a scale, covered in fuzzy, fuschia fake fur (or something) that provided users with...

Trouble resisting a late night dessert or shutting out distractions to finish up a project at work? The blog New Value Streams points to an...

Rise of p2p lending

What do retail banks do best? First, they are good for keeping your money safe. Money deposited in the bank is safer than money hidden inside the...

Rushkoff on persuasion, coercion, and why we listen

As part of my research on the Future of Advertising, I'll be interviewing Douglas Rushkoff, professor and author of Media Virus, Coercion, Life Inc....

Nudging kids to health

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"The Lightest of Touches": Stephen Duncombe, Pt. 2

Since our first installment of interview highlights with Stephen Duncombe, there's been a big announcement concerning our interviewee. It seems that...

Reducing Friction in online payments

This month’s Wired magazine has a cover story on the future of Money titled Money wants to be free. When I got the magazine in my mailbox at home, I...

Ends vs. Means and Persuasive Games

A video featuring Carnegie Mellon Professor of Entertainment Technology Jesse Schell has been making the rounds this week, and it touches on a number...

Consumer ultrasounds: looking inside yourself from the comfort of home

Brian Dolan at MobiHealthNews has an interesting post on the future of "consumerization of medical devices." GE Healthcare recently released Vscan, an...

What's the Worst that Could Happen?

About a month ago, the World Health Organization released a statement condemning groups who claim that the WHO created a sense of fear and hysteria...