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When the previously unimaginable looks possible

NEW IFTF Foresight Tool: Design Your Practice

As people try to make sense of a world where the present is more volatile than ever, we’ve observed an increased curiosity and interest in strategic...

News from the Future #41

What's new from IFTF.

Predictions Aren’t the Point: Lessons from Forecasting the Pandemic

One of the most common questions people first ask when learning about IFTF’s work is, “How many of your forecasts did you get right?” My answer is...

Future Shock is Here: A Future Now Special Edition #4

"What's After the Pandemic? It's Up to You" News from the Future #40

The Talent Profile for Thriving Leaders in the Next Future Shock

For more than a decade, beginning just after 9/11, I’ve been wrestling with the question of leadership profiles that will be required to thrive in...

Four Ways To Build A More Foresightful Organization

Sixteen years ago, Rene Rohrbeck was working as a technology strategist. His manager asked him to identify the important forces transforming their...

IFTF Foresight Tool: Map Complex Impacts During a Time of Uncertainty

In ideal circumstances, we would have all been mapping out pandemic scenarios and worked out robust action plans. After all, the whole point of...

Future Shock is Here: A Future Now Special Edition #3

Imagining a Post-Pandemic World

Future Shock is Here: A Future Now Special Edition #2

The Resilience-Building Power of Futures Thinking in Uncertain Times

The Leadership Trilogy

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Future Shock is Here: A Future Now Special Edition

The Coronavirus is the Future Shock of the Decade: Three Things You Need To Know

Counterfactual Thinking Is the Key to Creativity

— and a Vaccine against Future Shock

CHAPTER 1: Ramping Up to Full-Spectrum Thinking

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Alumni Insights: You Don’t Need to Be an Expert

As many of us are continuously exploring ways to stay ahead, or at least keep up, with the changing times, often we find that the methods we’ve been...

How to Form a Signals Group

Signals of change are the building blocks of futures thinking, and scanning for signals is an essential habit for any foresight practitioner. They...

Lessons from the EPIC Conference: Framing a Conversation on How Foresight Can Be Practical and Relevant

It’s a great time to be a foresight practitioner. Design, ethnography, innovation, strategy, experience, change management...people at the edges of...

News from the Future #36

Get signals, news, and new releases from IFTF.

News from the Future #35

Feeling Our Way Into the Future with Jane McGonigal

About Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Arts Movement

In September 2018, the Institute for The Future (IFTF) held its first panel on Afrofuturism at its Ten Year Forecast at the Museum of Computer History...

Train Your Brain to Prepare

Our brains think of our future selves as strangers and have built-in anxiety about change. This human tendency and our cognitive bias against thinking...

News from the Future #34

Welcome to 2020

To Protect Democracy We Need to Upgrade our Cognitive Immunity

By Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future and Nick Monaco, Director, Institute for the Future, Digital Intelligence...